DUSHANBE, June 5, 2009, Asia-Plus – A speech delivered by U.S. President Barack Obama to the Muslim world in Cairo is not solution to the problem; it is just an attempt to get away from the problem, known Tajik political scientist Rashid Ghani Abdullo remarked during discussion of Obama’s speech to the Muslim world at the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe yesterday.
The U.S. Embassy invited representatives of the public of Tajikistan to a joint viewing of the speech that was broadcast by one of foreign TV channels.
Mr. Abdullo considers that President Obama has chosen not quite correct rhetoric in his speech to the Muslim world. “Callings to forget the past do not do for us. If America is the country, on a large scale, without the past, the country of immigrants, each country in the Muslim world has its centuries-old history. Without knowing history of these problems that are deeply rooted it is impossible to solve them,” the expert said.
He also noted that an attempt of the United States to change the situation around America was dictated by actual defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq. “The wish to change the situation is not the voluntary wish; it is dictated by defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq. The United States has got stuck in military actions in these countries,” said Mr. Abdullo, “Here, there is a clear pragmatic understanding of the fact that this war now brings more damage than benefit to America.”
According to the expert, President Obama did not outlined the most important thing in his speech: the United States continues, to all appearance, dividing the countries of the Middle East, where there is one of the main seats of tension in relations between the Muslim and Western worlds, into those being near Americans’ hearts and those who are not. “Modern terrorism has appeared when unequal approach to participants of the events in the Middle East has appeared: some countries have been near Americans hearts while others have been at some distance. The speech did not produce proof that that approach has changed,” the expert said.
