The Cairo speech starts with the former ACORN activist saying: "More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations." As he often does, Obama speaks in the passive case, but what Egyptian would hear that speech that he had only Warsaw Pact countries in mind and not the US when he said it? The references to the Iraq war in the same speech from someone who opposed it also would likely be treated by the Egyptian audience as an admission of fault. It's true he doesn't ask for the audience's forgiveness in so many words, but I would agree with Romney the speech was part of an apology tour.