Obama's leadership
M. Serajul Islam's article headlined 'Obama's speech in Turkey and hope for a better world' (The Daily Star, 9 May 2009) aptly echoes the concern of Obama lovers around the globe, who would earnestly wish him success in his vision for a 'clash of civilisation'-free world. Yes, in our desperation for a new world order, Obama symbolises hopes of majority of the human race for a safer world-- a vision shaped more by a scientific global outlook for a positive changes in the new millennium than by self-defeating dogmas of the right, left, neo-cons and religious fundamentalists of all hues.
But to say whether President Obama lives up to the expectation is putting extra burden on him in that it is also for us, wherever we are, individually and collectively, to work for the future we would like ourselves and our posterity to be in. After all, Obama was a global candidate for the USA Presidentship as against a Republican, representing narrow thinking of US voters, which failed to recognize not only the emerging global reality but also the very American realism that makes the USA, nay, the Americas the torch-bearer of world heritage.
The anxiety, enthusiasm and bated breath, with which the whole world- from the first to the last, from the First Lady of France to the unknown rural youth of Bangladesh or, for that matter, of Asia, Africa and Latin America, waited for election result, itself made history by uniting the whole world on a national issue! That was the moment God in His infinite mercy consigned not Bush, but indeed all that he represented as anti-progress anti-American realism, to the dustbin of history. Thank God, He did it. And thank Mr. M. Serajul Islam for articulating it so aptly. It is perhaps safe to assume that in spite of doing his level best, President Barrack Hussein Obama's success in living up to the expectation of Obama lovers (and not the least, Obama haters!) will continue to be debated- during and beyond his tenure in office.
But the incontrovertible fact remains how an apparently impossible global dream triumphs over the forces of evil.
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