Monday, February 23, 2009

In black and white

With near thunderbolt pace, American President Barack Obama has transformed the line of US foreign policy less than a week after taking oath to the office by making apparent that the US’s aspirations and objectives will be in accordance with American ideals and the rule of law. Saying “we have no time to lose”, Obama summarised in a curt reply how pressing he deems it is to bolster American international relations and to graph a new line in foreign relations.

In the first two full days, the new government has set swiftness for taking action that was unheard and unseen in Bush’s administration. Giving orders from the White House and State Department headquarters alternatively, Obama pronounced the shutting down of the Guantanamo Bay confinement centre in Cuba, discontinuation of ruthless grilling manners by intelligence officers, halting of armed forces courts for alleged terrorists at Guantanamo for at least four months, ending of covert prisons upheld by the intelligence community overseas, and the selection of two extraordinary diplomatic envoys to deal with sensitive issues of Arab-Israeli amity and Afghanistan and Pakistan.....Continue

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