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Obama's line on Bin Laden (Part 2)

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Barack Obama soars in the polls and for now certainly controls the images and the narrative over the killing of Osama Bin Laden. But François Picard’s panel argues over whether the US president is simply applying the practices of his predecessor George W. Bush.

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Divina FRAU-MEIGS
Media sociologist, Professor of American studies and media sociology, Sorbonne-Nouvelle University

Stuart HAUGEN
Former Vice-president, Republicans Abroad France

Steven EKOVICH
Professor of Political Sciences, American University of Paris

Scott HORTON
Lecturer on law of war at Columbia University
Contributing editor, Harper's Magazine

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Washington and the Arab world
26/01/2011 - THE DEBATE

Washington and the Arab world

Don't make a push for democratic change in Egypt if you can't back it up. So warns one of François Picard's panellists as guests debate the relative merits of George W Bush's Freedom Agenda, and note the contrast between the Obama administration's silence after Egypt's allegedly rigged legislative elections and its call for more free speech today.
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