Why Arabs Are Getting Negative of U.S. Leadership?

With the change in office in White House, U.S. image across the world begin to ameliorate and this was also true of Arab countries. President Obama approval rating especially got a stimulus in the Muslim world from his Cairo speech. Primarily his vows to bring ‘Change’ in U.S. and its image as a power in the world helped him improve U.S. deteriorating image. But just over a year since Obama has been in office, some of the Arab countries have again taken a U-turn regarding perceptions about U.S.

A recent Gallup USA survey shows that in some of the Arab countries public percpetions of U.S. have taken a U-Turn. This is especially of true of Egypt-the country that President Obama chose for his address to Muslims. Did he made a wrong choice of the venue? Soon after his speech U.S. image soared up in Egypt and in many Arab countries which shows that probably venue his little significance in this regard. However Egyptians and all the Arabs were highly optimistic with the change in Washington. They had a lot of expectations from Obama. One of the survey conducted by Gallup USA then showed Egyptians priorities for Obama in order to improve U.S-Mulim relations. These priorities equally reflected the concerns in the Muslim world in general. People wanted Obama to take steps to pull out troops from Iraq, remove military bases from Saudi Arabia, support Muslim countries economically and technologically and help them get thier right to make their own governments. However over the last year, public in Muslim countries saw little effort on part of president Obama to achieve these goals.


People across the world always attach high hopes with change, so was the case in the Muslim world. Obama campainging and initial enthusiastic steps to improve U.S-Muslim relation gave a hope to Muslim. But the actual performance of Obama administration diappointed them and again created the air of distrust. This resulted in the U-Turn in several Arabs perceptions about U.S.

How can President Obama restore the trust in the Muslim world?
What initial steps Presidetn Obama may take to ameliorate U.S-Muslim relatons?
Is there any need for another Cairo speech?