Look East America

Afro-Asians may feel elated at the election of Barack Obama as the President of America but they have no cause to forget themselves. Similarly Arabs and Muslims may take pride in his Muslim ancestory but should have no illusions about that. He may not haqve any special attachment either for Africans, or Asians, or Arabs, or Muslims. He is an American first and an American last. Like his predecessors he will cultivate the interest through and through. If anybody thinks he will be a decive factor in the formulation and execution of American policy he is patently mistake. American policy is made not by one individual but by and on the advice a well-entrenched establishment and influenced by omnipotent, omnipresent and omnicompetent lobbies.
Muslims should not read musch in his one para reference to the Muslim world in his inaugural speech. There is nothing new, nothing radical. No radical departure is possible. Every statement is a restatement of the last statement. We Muslims cannot afford to repose too much trust and confidence in a person who is merely an appendage of the American power-structure.#