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People across the Middle East have been roiled

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by political change for nearly two years,

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So it's perhaps not surprising

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the U.S. presidential election

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is failing to garner much interest.

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Few are expressing a preference

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for either President Barack Obama

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or challenger Mitt Romney,

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even as both make the Middle East

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a key foreign policy issue.

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Romney sees a region in chaos.

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"We're talking about the Middle East

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and how to help the Middle East

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reject the kind of terrorism we're seeing

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and the rising tide of tumult and confusion."

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For some in the Arab world,

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any talk of "help" from any U.S. politician

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comes across as arrogant.

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Ayman Kamal is a store clerk in Cairo.

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"It's as if it's a teacher

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holding a stick to the student -

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as if Arabs are students

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in a classroom in front of him.

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This is all I see from America."

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Others fear continued U.S. military

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interference in the region,

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despite calls for caution from President Obama.

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"For us to get more entangled militarily in Syria

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 is a serious step."

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And Mr.Romney.

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"We don't want to have military involvement there."

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"We don't want to get drawn into a military conflict."

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Author and political scientist Hassan Nafaa

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says it doesn't matter who wins."

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Because it doesn't make any difference

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whether we have Obama or Romney.

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But the intellectuals,

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certainly, would prefer Obama, rather than Romney

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because he will be more careful in using force

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to achieve the U.S. goals and interests."

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Mr.Obama raised high hopes in 2009,

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promising a fresh start for the U.S. in the Middle East

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during a speech in Cairo.

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But disappointment followed,

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as did the Arab Spring.

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Agathon Shehata is a Coptic priest.

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"Obama's policies were not what we much expected.

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I can't say more,

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just we didn't expect them to be like that."

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For Hassan Nafaa,

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the biggest disappointment was no change

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in U.S. policy on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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"Everybody knows the United States,

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whoever is governing

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this big important international actor,

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will be very much supportive to Israel."

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"So, as long as the U.S. president doesn't change

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the current American policy in the Middle East,

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we will see the United States

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as playing a negative role in this part of the world

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and nothing will be changed.

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Both candidates have pledged full backing

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of America's long-time ally

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and that continued support

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is a perennial rallying cry

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for anti-Americanism in the region.

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