“A (non-Muslim) friend of mine calls Cairo ‘one of the greatest speeches a US president has ever made.’ Strong words, but defensible. By the time this article is published the speech will have been thoroughly picked over by the carrion fowl of both the establishment media and the blogosphere, and I hesitate to throw in my oar. But my purpose is not to parse Obama’s words for bad faith or hidden agendas, but in fact the opposite: to argue that he means what he says.”