DUSHANBE, June 6, 2009, Asia-Plus — Tajik political scientist Abdullo Hakim Rahnamo considers that regret of new U.S. administration for the policy the United States has conducted towards the Muslim world over the past decade is discernible in a June 4 speech of President Barack Obama in Cairo.
“Speaking on democracy, Mr. Obama admitted that no system or government should be imposed upon one nation by any other,” said Rahnamo. “In the meantime, Mr. Obama refrained from analyzing actions of the United States over the past years and called for forgetting the past in order to build the future”
We will recall that in his keynote speech in Cairo, President Obama noted: “For human history has often been a record of nations and tribes — and, yes, religions — subjugating one another in pursuit of their own interests. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it. Our problems must be dealt with through partnership; our progress must be shared.”
Rahnamo considers that it would be more effective if the U.S. president is able to muster the courage to admit all mistakes made by the U.S. administration over the past eight years that “entailed numerous tragedies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The political scientist expressed hope that the U.S. president’s speech would have positive impact on the peace process in the Middle East as well as promote settlement of numerous conflicts in that region and outside it.
