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Obama: High Hopes

On Friday October 9^th 2009, “The Norwegian Nobel Committee” decided to award the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to the American President Barack Obama (The 44^th POTUS) according to their statement: “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people.”

Reactions that sparked after this nomination varied between welcoming and fury among people not only inside the USA but also worldwide; however in this blog entry, I am concerned by going behind the nomination not the reactions.

Obama awarded Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2009

War and Peace

I believe people every where are looking for avoiding war and achieving peace that is accompanied by justice; something that we are lacking for since World War II which was the main reason for establishing the United Nations (UN) in 1945; however it has not been achieved for many reasons that can be summed-up into the vision of people towards the future and how it is reflected on the ground in terms of strategies and action plans.

I have elaborated on this topic at the early beginnings of blogging on the blogosphere where I described this attitude beside other ones as an ongoing the scary movie of the 21^st century that is running for no rational reason.

Rise and Fall

Furthermore, during the past decades, many nations rendered a negative political image of the United Stats of America (USA) which went dramatically to the bottom rock in the past 8 years.

This occurred due to the impact of the strategy that was implemented by successive administrations, especially President Bush administration, that affected other nations worldwide in the different fields of “politics”, “geopolitics”, “economy”, “climatic change”, “nuclear disarmament”, “arms conduct”, “war on terror”, “democracy”, and “human rights” globally.

Nevertheless, since he ran for presidential elections, President Obama caught people’s attention around the globe by his new language as a politician that aims to change the image of USA worldwide beside the main issues that are important to any American citizen at home who are not concerned about global-politics.

Obama: High Hopes after Cairo Speech

The implementation of the new language that Obama was speaking before and after running for presidency has straight impact on the previously mentioned issues which became vital in the 21^st century. This, in my opinion, is simply why the noble committee nomination literally came after 11 days of his residence in the White House as President and before 4 months of his “Cairo Speech” that aimed for a new beginnings with the Muslim World in June 4^th 2009 which shaped many aspects of his strategy.

Reformation

In terms of speech, this is good for some people while seems revolutionary for others and of course rise the anger for a third group; however talking on the ground, we still have two meaningless open wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that are still going on. I may understand that they are the legacy of President Bush Administration but this means more death tolls that is constantly rising for nothing particular.

On the other hand, talking about Middle East conflict, maybe it cannot be solved that simple after more than 60 years however it is time to pay more attention -not ignoring- the way Israel is dealing there.

Hereby, I may understand that there are problems among the Palestinians but any human being can not ignore that there is no particular reason for the Israeli actions especially during Lebanon War (2006), Gaza War (2008/2009) and same goes for other occupied Arab land, so it is important to see the situation clearly in order to find real solution.

Humans not Icons

People are always looking for good people who guide them for achieving noble things and this is rooted in the subconscious of people regardless the culture through Literature and Science Fiction in case this is not achieved on ground, at least from my perspective.

So despite understanding the high hopes on Obama and enthusiasm of the noble committee to urge him on following up with his strategy, I am afraid that this can be nothing more than creating another icon in history unless every body start to stand up for their responsibilities to achieve a better situation after many decades of downfall on the human level, especially the leaders of countries and nations.

Responsibilities of Leaders

In my opinion, maybe it is not that clear yet for many people; however I see Obama, as personnel, has been already placed as a remark in the human history for reasons that are not in the scope of this blog entry; however I am aware that administrating USA is not a one man show but rather is a constitutional framework that has many branches which means more responsibilities and pressure to be placed on the Obama Administration’s shoulder after this prize. Nevertheless, the responsibility for achieving this is distributed among all the leaders of our world not only Obama because he is the 44^th POTUS (President of the United States) not of every single nation.

Therefore to achieve what this prize aims to, there are thousand miles everybody has to go before they sleep. This simply means more cooperation between people which we have not seen yet in the past decades by any means in terms of politics and its impact on the ground in the issues mentioned up. Such cooperation cannot be achieved unless people are aware about understanding and respecting each other in parallel with working hard for de-stereotyping the image in the 21^st century as I either discussed 3 years ago over published articles on I-MAG Magazine or through different posts over my blog.

In a nutshell, the different high hopes on Obama simply means leaders who are brave enough and have vision to reach the light at the end of the tunnel on both local and global scales. Hereby, the real message behind this Noble prize nomination is to take responsibilities for helping people to understand and respect their cultural, ethnic, and religious differences in order to live together and achieve this in the light of my elaborations or else we shall discover that we are just reading another good novel.

Future shall tell us indeed and hopefully it is not!

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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. — Emile Zola

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