Battleground of Ideas
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Bush's State of the Union Message confirmed the Arab world's view
of the U.S. president as a caricature who talks about strength and
determination while projecting an image of stubbornness and confusion.
Web-Exclusive Commentary
By Christopher Dickey
Newsweek
Updated: 11:13 a.m. ET Feb. 1, 2006
Feb. 1, 2006 - Prime time in the United States falls in the darkest
hours before dawn in the Middle East-prayer time, in fact, for the
Muslim faithful, the moment when the muezzin calls out (most often on a
cassette tape over loudspeakers) that prayers are better than sleep. So
only a few people in the region listened to President George W. Bush
deliver his State of the Union address last night. But they know the
message, now, almost as well as they know the call of the muezzin; it
has been repeated so often, so relentlessly, and so mechanically. The
difference is that many believe the muezzin, and few believe Bush.
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