AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IS CHANGING

(NEJAD;COME AND WRITE A NEW CHAPTER IN WORLD HISTORY)

Obama's videotaped message to Iran in particular and arab world in general subtitled with arabi telecasted on some channels an you tube is a milestone in the foreign policy arena of the USA. The message on the 'navroj', beginning of spring month for muslim world for Iranians is being attached immense significane by a host of foreign policy strategists and think tanks across the world.Obama said that US wants a new beginning of relations with Iran. He emphasised that Iran is entitled to a rightful place in world order, but it can not be achieved through guns, he added.

Obama's speech may and should hopefully end thirty years old Iranian-American hostilities, which has begun with the hostage crisis almost thirty years ago in Iran which lasted for more than 444 days. The broken diplomatic relation between the two nations has already done immense damage to the world community. This isolation must be put to a ceremonious end.

Outlining the changing geo-political and balance of power situation, Obama said in an emotional blended with diplomatic tune, that Iran must be given its due say and a place in the International world order. He worded the importance with a caution that,Iran deserves such place but it can't be achieved through use of nuclear weapons and WMD. Obama, reiterating the commitment of the US administration towards disarmament, said that such weapons find no place in the present world. Obama touched the sensitive nerves of Iran by saying that Iran has a rich cultural heritage and Iranian people are great. With the repository of knowledge and rich culture, Obama said, Iran can contribute in a significant way to the world order.

As expected, the world community including the west has responded very enthusiatically to this what is being dubbed, change in American policy towards Iran. Iranian President Ahmadi Nejad has reacted positively too, but he said that the words of America should be translated into actions and deeds. In a televised message, Nijad said that he does not see change in US stance on Iran. This does however not mean that Iran has refused the gesture of Obama flately. It is a diplomatic move and hatred of such magnitude embedded in American and Iranian society can not be eradicated in one single stroke. America has a long way to go before it reaches to the destination. It has to show the political sagacity to accept that the world has changed so it should also change its perceptions with respect to all the members of the world community. American perception about democracy and liberty needs morphosis. The American type democracy can not be exported to everywhere in the world. It has failed in Afghanistan and Iraqe also. World is a plural society with a plethora of culture and thoughts. How can one claim supreority over others?

I had urged Obama on dated 14 March (refer my article titled ' Obama; make a new global economic and social order'), to strive for reconciliation rather than hostilities. The entire world is watching this new incarnation, the Obama, and is perhaps the last hope of the world to end all around hostilities and hatred.

The era of hatred and mistrust must be removed and removed for ever. The grotesque legacy of Bush and his predecessors are the huge diplomatic liabilities on Obama which he has to bear and write off sucessfully. The world economic meltdown is in a way also generated by USA and exported to the whole world.The world had to face a number of useless but devastating wars. In order to impose and super impose American type democracy, Bush and his father tattered the social and economic fabric of the globe and it will take years and years to stich them well and restore the pristinity. Bush and his father's hatred had been heard time and again in the words like ' axis of evil empire' and ' rogue states' etc. These adjectives smacked and smelt hatred blended with racial discrimination. This must end. US has to learn the art of paying respect to others, if it really wants to be respected by all. You can buy wars, win victories but no money can buy peace, this is the ethos of our Indian culture and religion. Americans must learn art of living. Excessive and bottomless greed has thrown us in a bottomless pit of miseries. Obama has rightly asserted and exerted that govt must perform and act. Reagan said that govt must not act in the business becasue he said, if govt acts it brings perils. Such notion and such economic theories have faild miserably. It is not socialism or communism in making as many people claim, it is the constructive and socialistic capitalism. Human beings are the pivote of all economic theories and no economy can thrive and survive killing millions of people by putting them in poverty.

Any way, Obama has made the grand beginning in this regard. It must be carried forward. All nations,all diplomats and politicians and above all all members of civil society must respond and reciprocate to this call enthusiastically. Let a helping hand be extended to make the world a better place to live in. God has created it to make love, to live and let other live.

The theory of clash of civilisations propounded by Samuel Hustington is proving wrong, it should be proved wrong