tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62662980934561062992024-02-20T04:55:31.011-05:00TO PRESIDENT OBAMAEgLetter2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/08571712221169747864noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6266298093456106299.post-60890843926489704032011-01-30T16:23:00.012-05:002011-01-31T01:55:03.675-05:00<a href="http://www.accuracy.org/an-open-letter-to-president-barack-obama/">http://www.accuracy.org/an-open-letter-to-president-barack-obama/</a><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">An Open Letter to President Barack Obama</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">January 30, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">Dear President Obama:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">As political scientists, historians, and researchers in related fields who have studied the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy, we the undersigned believe you have a chance to move beyond rhetoric to support the democratic movement sweeping over Egypt. As citizens, we expect our president to uphold those values.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">For thirty years, our government has spent billions of dollars to help build and sustain the system the Egyptian people are now trying to dismantle. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Egypt and around the world have spoken. We believe their message is bold and clear: Mubarak should resign from office and allow Egyptians to establish a new government free of his and his family’s influence. It is also clear to us that if you seek, as you said Friday “</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">political, social, and economic reforms that meet the aspirations of the Egyptian people,” your administration should publicly acknowledge those reforms will not be advanced by Mubarak or any of his adjutants.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">There is another lesson from this crisis, a lesson not for the Egyptian government but for our own. In order for the United States to stand with the Egyptian people it must approach Egypt through a framework of shared values and hopes, not the prism of geostrategy. On Friday you rightly said that “suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.” </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">For that reason we urge your administration to seize this chance, turn away from the policies that brought us here, and embark on a new course toward peace, democracy and prosperity for the people of the Middle East. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">And we call on you to undertake a comprehensive review of US foreign policy on the major grievances voiced by the democratic opposition in Egypt and all other societies of the region. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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Robertson, Central Michigan University<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Amir Niknejad, College of Mount Saint Vincent <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mehdi Noorbaksh, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Anthony Tirado Chase, Occidental College<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Russell E. Lucas, Florida International University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ariel Saizmann, Queen’s University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Patrick Kane, Clatsop Community College <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Behrooz Moazami, Loyola University New Orleans <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Anthony Shenoda, Scripps College<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mark Allen Peterson, Miami University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Amel Ahmed, University of Massachusetts-Amherst <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ilana Feldman, George Washington University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Marwan M. Kraidy, University of Pennsylvania <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mohamad Daadaoui, Oklahoma City University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nathalie Peutz, New York University Abu Dhabi <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Kamran Rastegar, Tufts University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Najib Ghadbian, University of Arkansas <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mojtaba Mahdavi, University of Alberta, Canada <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Stefanie Nanes, Hofstra University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rochelle Davis, Georgetown University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Zeinab Abul-Magd, Oberlin College <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Andrea Teti, University of Aberdeen <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Denise M. Walsh, University of Virginia <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Frances S. Hasso, Duke University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Waad El Hadidy, New York University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Elliot Colla, Georgetown University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Monika Halkort, Queen’s University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sonia Alvarez, University of Massachusetts, Amherst<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Christa Salamandra, City University of New York <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Shirin Saeidi, Cambridge University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Shiera Malik, DePaul University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Steve Tamari, Southern Illinois University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sean Yom, Temple University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ali Banuazizi, Boston College <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sinan Antoon, New York University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Moustafa Bayoumi, City University of New York <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Jennifer Derr, Bard College <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mirjam Künkler, Princeton University Wilson <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Jacob, Concordia University, Montreal <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Alan Mikhail, Yale University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Narges Erami, Yale University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Gwenn Okruhlik, Trinity University<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Pete Moore, Case Western Reserve University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Max Weiss, Princeton University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Margaret Susan Thompson, Syracuse University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sarah Shields, University of North Carolina <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sonia Alcarez, University of Massachusetts Amherst <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Roberto Alejandro, University of Massachusetts Amherst <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Manal Jamal, James Madison University<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Justin Stearns, New York University at Abu Dhabi<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nicholas Xenos, University of Massachusetts Amherst <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rebecca Hopkins, University of Texas Austin <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">John Calvert, Creighton University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nir Rosen, New York University <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ian Lustik, University of Pennsylvania<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Steve Niva, The Evergreen State University<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Michael C. Hudson, Georgetown University and </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">National University of Singapore<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Shane Minkin, Swarthmore College<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Feisal Mohamed, University of Illinois<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Ahmed Kamel Khattab, Free University Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Benjamin Simuin, University of Utah<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Stephen Engelmann, University of Illinois at Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Stacy Fahrenthold, Northeastern University<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Sondra Hale, UCLA<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Nicole Watts, San Francisco State University<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Hobart and William Smith Colleges<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Alan Fisher, Michigan State University<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Laurie King-Irani, Georgetown University<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Gary Fields, UC San Diego<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Curtis Ryan, Appalachian State University<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Keelu Fahoum, Naval Postgraduate School<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Steven Brooke, University of Texas Austin<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Andrew Fibbert, Trinity College<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Ted Swedenburg, University of Arkansas<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">John Womack Jr. Harvard University<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Sayed Eisisi, University of Maryland<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Louis Cristillo, Columbia University<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">David Waldner, University of Virginia<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">John Measor, St. Mary’s University</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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