Obama’s promise of change: Reality or just a Slogan?

Posted on November 19, 2008 | 1,294 views
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It was dream come true for African Americans to see Barrack Obama winning the United States (US) election 2008. It was not less than a miracle to see a black president where persecution of African Americans was mere routine in recent past. The victory of Obama is something that is an out come of his polity which can be judged through his election campaign slogan of ‘Change we need’. It is true that US needs the change badly but will Obama and his fellows be able to offer that change? Very little can be said or judged at the moment.

It is believed by many that after 9/11, the US policy took a new turn. I can recall clearly to what were the statements of then President Bush followed by his doctrine of preemption. Iraq was attacked, followed by Afghanistan in the name of so called War against Terror. Such steps were welcomed by US citizens as well as many others since to then emotional nation it was the only viable option, the option to fight for so called freedom and die in the line of duty but time proved it otherwise. Now, it is widely accepted by many US nationals as well as spectators around world that their policy of preemptive attacks was flawed and it resulted in a damage that will require a great deal of time for repair. Though, this policy of insane confrontation pleased many like Donald Rumsfeld and other disciples of Leo Strauss termed neo-conservative but in the long run since this policy was unnatural so it failed to come up to the expectations of common US citizens. In the after math of this Vietnam like failure of US to get the required results in Iraq and Afghanistan, the support of Bush and his coteries started falling. This offered a window to Democrats and they made it to presidency once again with the dreams of a better tomorrow with change in American policies.

It will not be wrong to point out that US citizens were really looking for a change and when Democrats offered them the dreams of change, they ran after them but will those dreams see the day’s light? It is a difficult yet important question but in order to get the answer, we will have to wait and watch Obama work towards the fulfillment of promises he has made to his nation and world. Let us all see if he is able to bring the change he was professing for so long. Will he be able to curb the torture course adopted in Guantanamo bay Prison? Will he be able to bring the US troops back to home from Iraq? Will he be able to make us see the change? I wonder if it is possible but what else we can do than believing in dreams sold to us in the name of better tomorrow.

Lastly, it is worthy of mention that the war against terror is very important but the ways US and other nations are using to deal with this menace are not the right ones. In order to fight terror, one needs to fight the mentality behind it including the causes of such mentality. We can not cure the disease unless we treat the underlying cause similarly, the terrorism has a complex underlying cause that is multifaceted in nature and we need to take it in account before dealing it. Barrack Obama, appears reasonably sensitized to this issue and we hope we will do the homework properly before embarking upon some course and will not repeat the mistakes the others have done in past. I wish him all the very best and hope we will stay sane.

Caricature Credits: The Artwork of Niall O Loughlin

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3 Responses to “Obama’s promise of change: Reality or just a Slogan?”

  1. Waheed Gujar on January 6th, 2009 11:55 pm

    We have seen that in all americian history, all the americian presidents were against muslims and muslim countries. They used muslims for their pupose not for the benefit of muslims. As Bush establishment made Pakistan their frontline partner against war on terror, it was all bulshit pakista has no importence for americe , they use pakistan as their “…….”
    So all Pakistani nation should know that we have to save our pakistan from evil hands…

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  2. niall on March 12th, 2009 5:16 pm

    Can you please remove this image of Obama, or at the very least add a link to me. would be nice if you asked first!

  3. Dr Farrukh Malik on March 12th, 2009 10:41 pm

    We have done the needful and would like to apologize for such an unwanted act.

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