DAMASCUS, Syria — The fallout from Barack Obama's speech last week before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is still reverberating here in the Middle East. Indeed, it should be no surprise that the whole world is watching this presidential election — often more closely than any campaign within local borders — with CNN International and the Internet bringing even seemingly pointless details from remote regions of the U.S. to the globe's digital newsstands.

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