REMAKING OF AMERICA _ NORTH-EAST REMADE

Guwahati,Asom,________________________

AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S
GLOBAL CONCERN : The
NE region
[India]

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The inaugural address of the 44th US president_ Barack Hussein Obama_ delivered after his swearing in with Lincoln's bible of 1861 [ including three seconds break ,due possibly to
a choke- the black history unfolded like a lightning ?], which itself was four seconds later than the 20 January noon that had been stipulated by the 20th Amendment,enhanced global and American expectations while making a turbulent negotiation between hope and possibilities, within opportunities that would be yet constructed.

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South Asia, including India, Pakistan and Afghanistan ,naturally falls in his broad worldwide agenda for global wealth creation,considerable job creation for Americans[could be 4 million] including Hindus,Muslims,Jews,non-believers[like us, who are very large in number among scientists and social workers in the USA] and Christians ,who have been assured of a reconstructed economy, roads, bridges, infrastructures , education and restoration of science to its right place. Can his leadership remake America, spoiled by his warmongering predecessor[who also left a note on his table in the best American presidential transitional tradition],restore peace and Palestinians' inalienable right to homeland- considering the recent three -week long Israeli massacre of 1500 Palestininians in Gaza and destructon of half a mllion Gaza homes,do justice to 250 Bush detainees in Guantanamo bay ,within the first few days of his take-over are what the world watchers hang on.

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His inaugural address bears two major components [a] principles and bequeathed American values packaged in universal doctrines, apart from ideolology and [b] American national as well as global agenda.A couple of editors in India celebrate in this morning edition that his speech writers had recyclyed a word of India Gandhi- ' a government that works'; the celebration is premature and incompatible.A quiet revolutionary like Obama would loves to deliver complete results, in one more term possibly[ should the white supremacistson the fanatical fringe like Talibans- the KKK be preempted from snubbing his life and soul, indeed Hoover is not alive to kill one more JFK].

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At the very outset, his speech set two prorities- fighting out violence and secondly, arresting the world economic decline- or, recession whatever.He did not mention Afghanistan more than once and mentioned his promise of defeating the opponents of his virtues only once. The beauty of his message lies in his promise to make US a friend to every nation -big or small_ [ could be the NE nations also by extrapolation], unlike his other predecessors who divided world into American friends and enemies leaving none in the vast infinite grey space.He even made a modest appeal to the Muslim world for mutual 'interest' and 'trust'without making hatred a populist rhetoric a la Huntingtonian Clash of civilizations that informed his immediate predecessor .Bush's 'axis of evil', scent of McCathysm of 1950s,Dullesian cold war concern are totally absent in both the fervour and tone of Obma approach.This soothing scent reaches out to remote corners and could be a huge asset in strategic re-definition of international relations.
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Unlike the young president who drew crowds in 1960s- JFK- who stood in his inaugural address with American friends and against foes in more vitriolic language[ that gained JFK prolonged applause], Obama makes his rhetoric in a postive note of marketing the US as friend of every nation.He is not treading the path of Fukuyama's 'end of history' path .Liberal democracy as Egyptian Shamim Ali says may not be the end of history; Obama has to fight recession like a Roman gladiator[ a new Spartacus of Kanyan breed,Hawai born] .Cautiously, he cited communism just once in reminiscence of cold war,yet communism is alive- may not be Obama's axis of evil.


________In real practice so far, he wished his Republican one time opponent Mc Cain to actively cooperate in reshaping the US with his leadership, took in his one time rival Hillary Clinton in the second most powerful job and addressed his divided American nation in the most bipartisan way ever; he may take even a couple of Republicans in his cabinet posts.A healing America precedes his offically announced agenda of remaking America.
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Although he did not mention West Asia at all, which is actually mother of all terrorisms in modern world[ after swearing] starting from 1948 Irgun Jewish terrorism that did real midwifery of the retaliatory AlFatah and others in the Arab world, he did a soft opening to the Muslim world. Despite calculated distortions by university dons world wide, Arab terrorism is counter-terrorism addressed to the fundamentalist Jewish terrorism of 1948.In real terms of state craft, Medeline Albright,Condolizza Rice and the next Secretary of State-Hillary Clinton [ incidentally all three in female gender in grammar] had been and have to be actively engaged in West Asia diplomacy. A tested diplomat George J.Mitchell would have to handle the the fragile West Asia though.That is Obama approach- could be Kashmir, as the backyard of Afghanistan and tribal areas of Pakistan.

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Reconciliatory in tone and body language,carefully value-added political rhetoric- a little bit patronizing though- reminding one of Lincoln[ not exactly his 1862 emancipation proclamation whch we read],underplaying American exceptionalism[ unlike Kissinger's Machiavellian American exceptionalism ]unlike what every US president did, Obama address marks a vivid testimony of his committed odyssey in remaking in two terms,his nation and nations without compromising well-set human values, although he did not mention human rights even once;what he loved to address, at the end of the day ,is human rights after all[ human rights in the NE region included].

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