Word on the street is Obama will head to an Arab capital for a major speech in his first 100 days. I doubt anyone in the United States will care much one way or the other, preoccupied as we are by our own economic problems, but that’s not to say such a speech couldn’t have a real effect in the Arab world. Rumor has it that the speech would take place in Cairo. Why not Baghdad? Here’s how the New York Times‘s Helene Cooper explains it:

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