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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, National Security Adviser Tom Donlion, Sen. John Kerry (Democrat of Massachusetts), United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton listen to President Barack Obama deliver a speech on Mideast and North Africa policy in the Ben Franklin Room at the State Department May 19, 2011 in Washington, DC. Through the lens of the popular Middle East uprisings, the killing of Osama Bin Laden and the bloody crackdown on protesters by the Syrian government, Obama attempted to strike a balance between national security and the need for democratic reform in the Arab world. .Credit: Chip Somodevilla / Pool via CNP/AdMedia