This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, June 8, 2009.

I'm Caleb Brown.

President Obama's speech in Egypt relied heavily on the words and principles of the

founding of the United States, that the U.S. should

advance human rights and the cause of liberty by its example, not by military force.

Heino Institute Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Christopher Preble, says

the speech hit some essential points

without over-promising.

As a number of people have pointed out, is a misnomer to speak of the Muslim world as though it were a monolith.

It is not.

Most Muslims do not live in the Middle East even.

There are the largest Muslim countries Indonesia, of course, and so, you know, there is, you know, there was a problem even in the way of that was framed. However, having said that, it is true the president was speaking to an audience in

Cairo which was covered live by all of the major Arabic language stations and most of the major news

organizations all around the world listen to live the White House had arranged to

have the text sent to people's personal devices in all manner of languages.

I mean, clearly the White House wanted this to be communicating with the whole world about our relationship with

with the region with people who who practice Islam who even recognizing, as the speech did, the many nuances and differences within

that religion.

There was a tempering, it seemed, of a U.S. relationship with Israel.

Perhaps.

I anticipated that ahead of the speech, there has been a considerable focus within the last few weeks on the settlement issue an issue that the Bush

administration avoided or minimized President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton, and others have emphasized the importance of the settlements

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