Last April, we polled people across the Arab world asking them what they thought was the most positive early action President Barack Obama had taken to improve US-Arab relations. High up on the list (just under the decision to leave Iraq), was the president’s pledge to close Guantanamo Bay and ban torture. That this issue would be more popular than Mr Obama’s early steps to forge a Middle East peace or his outreach to the Arab and Muslim worlds should not have been surprising.
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