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...Thanks to Obama’s successful visit, the Czech Republic now knows the caliber of leader with whom they will be working. But the world should no longer be surprised by Obama’s grace and dignity or his constant, effortless self-awareness. Obama could walk into almost any room of strangers and produce that sort of result. Perhaps the most important message of his speech was this: that the United States is back as a robust political force, and the dynamism of its leader cannot be ignored...
Over the next eight days, Obama would have to visit six countries, attend three international summits, conduct scheduled meetings with 25 world leaders and deliver public remarks at least 22 times, including five press conferences and two student-filled town halls. He would be asked to personally broker a new global economic compact and the unanimous appointment of a new NATO Secretary-General and to make time for a rain-soaked meeting in Istanbul with foreign ministers from Turkey and Armenia at which the stakes were merely to build a rapprochement after a nearly century-old genocide. (See pictures...
...been waiting for all his life, a chance to apply on a global stage the lessons he learned as a community organizer in the 1980s. "We are stronger when we act together," he told the Turkish parliament and military on April 6, returning to the theme that defined his visit. At every stop, he delivered this message, offering collaboration and partnership instead of demands of the kind that marked the Bush era. At a press conference in Baden-Baden with Germany's Angela Merkel, a reporter asked Obama what his "grand designs" were for NATO. "I don't come bearing...
...Finding common ground," "building bridges" and "coming together" - these are the by now familiar-sounding terms of U.S. President Barack Obama's foreign policy. On a two-day visit to Turkey, a mainly Muslim country deeply divided over the role of Islam in politics, expanding democratic rights and enacting European Union reforms, the President showed how it's done. From minority Christian leaders and Muslim mufti to Kurdish politicians and right-wing nationalists, Obama met with vastly disparate sections of Turkish society and managed to earn back at least some of the goodwill lost in recent years...
...Obama also used his first visit to a Muslim country to send a message of reconciliation to the greater Islamic world. "America is not, and will never be, at war with Islam," he declared in his address to Turkish MPs. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Obama's speech "reflects a clear attention toward the two-state solution" for Israel and the Palestinians and described Obama's words as "important" and "positive...