{"id":50287,"date":"2012-08-06T09:49:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T09:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=50287"},"modified":"2017-11-21T04:47:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T23:17:51","slug":"for-the-united-states-arab-spring-raises-question-of-values-versus-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/for-the-united-states-arab-spring-raises-question-of-values-versus-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"For The United States, Arab Spring Raises Question Of Values Versus Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<a title=\"See all posts by DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK\" href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/david-d-kirkpatrick\/\">David D. Kirkpatric<\/a>k &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CAIRO \u2014 Barack Obama\u00a0<a title=\"Times article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/05\/world\/middleeast\/05prexy.html\">came here as a new president in 2009<\/a>\u00a0to proclaim \u201ca new beginning\u201d in American relations with the Muslim world, grounded in support for the dream of Arab democracy and \u201cgovernments that reflect the will of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He could not have guessed that the demand for Arab democracy would instead become one of his presidency\u2019s greatest foreign policy challenges, forcing whoever wins the November election to confront tough trade offs between American values and interests..<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <a href=\"https:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/27\/for-the-united-states-arab-spring-raises-question-of-values-versus-interests\/\">the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":50288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402,2201],"tags":[2079,3415],"class_list":["post-50287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice","category-from-foreign-media","tag-arab-spring","tag-arab-spring-and-us"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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