A Chance for Obama to Turn the Page

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Back to the future: Obama's 2009 speech in Cairo.

Abroad, and possibly at home as well, the killing of Osama bin Laden offers President Obama the rarest of political gifts: the opportunity for a fresh start.

This week's stunning raid doesn't guarantee Obama reelection; judgments about his impact on the economy will have more influence there. Nor does the mission end the threat of Islamic radicalism.

But in both domestic and foreign arenas, the triumph could offer Obama chances to turn the page. Those options begin in Pakistan. The discovery that bin Laden was living so close to the heart of the military establishment there...

Related Topics: Osama bin Laden, Barack Obama

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/05/05/a_chance_for_obama_to_turn_the_page_254986.html

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