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This strikes me as an extremely good idea.

President-elect Barack Obama’s aides say he is considering making a major foreign policy speech from an Islamic capital during his first 100 days in office.

The reporting in the article seems to think that this would take place in Cairo, although I think on the steps of his former school in the world's most populous Muslim nation, Indonesia, is a possibility.

Anyway, the symbolic significance would be pretty powerful. Not to mention the opportunities for exploding heads on the right.

(and yes, since we are a Muslim nation now "Washington" would suffice as an Islamic capital.)