This is our common foreign policy statement relating to the Middle East. I fail to see anything that Obama said that would disagree with any previous or future administration’s foreign policy statements.
When you read the literature from the Arab Spring, they are most upset at our hypocrisy (as pointed out by HPSlugga). They see us for what we are. We work in our own interest, and we don’t really care about supporting freedom and liberty. We actually work against those causes in the states mentioned by HPSlugga (read the history of Saudi Arabia and wonder why the terrorists all came from there). Israel is a part.
The war on terror is like the war on drugs. A never ending gold mine for both dealers/terrorists and weapon manufacturers.