By Helle Dale ~

I have added an UPDATE with a link to a video and an excerpt of the transcript at the bottom of the Post. This is from an interview on an Australian late night current affairs TV program as recent as Thursday night. In that interview, a long term Middle East foreign correspondent says the same thing as what is alluded to in this Post from Helle Dale…..TonyfromOz.

Under President Obama’s leadership, U.S. influence among Middle East nations has waned, and in fact declined since President Bush left office.

During last week’s visit to Ramallah, Palestine, Obama was the object of demonstrations by irate Palestinians. They are not alone in their anger over neglect and unfulfilled presidential promises, as Princeton graduate and Fulbright scholar Sarah Mousa wrote following Obama’s Middle East trip:

Throughout the region, people celebrated Obama as a potentially revolutionary force via US policy…