In one of his most important foreign policy opportunities yet, Barack Obama delivered a speech at Cairo University today. He called for a "new beginning" with the Muslim world and did not shy away from such hot topics as Israel, 9/11, and the Iraq war. As Meghan O'Rourke has pointed out on XX Factor, though, one topic he did not spend much time on was women's rights:

"As he put it, 'I reject the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is somehow less equal, but I do believe that a woman who is denied an education is denied equality. And it is no coincidence that countries where women are well-educated are far more likely to be prosperous.' I wish, though, he had said more on this subject; it has always seemed to me that his one point of weakness has been in reaching out to women in particular."

Read Meghan's thoughts here and Anne Applebaum's take, excerpted below, here:

"For my taste, there was too much 'on the one hand, on the other hand' about the language, including (I'm agreeing with Meghan here) on women. He didn't have to start that particular riff by declaring that 'there is debate about this issue,' as if the repression of some very fundamental rights of half the human race were somehow 'debatable.' And he could have spared us the comment about the 'struggle for womens' equality in America,' as if we were all in this together, us and the regimes who stone women for adultery."

Also on Slate:

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