The ongoing president of United States of America and Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama has won a second term in office, defeating
his republican challenger, Mitt Romney, to remain the 44th president
of the United State and his name didn’t consign to the list of one-term
presidents who were fired before they could finish.
As his supporters were celebrating outside the White House,
Obama was addressing them via the social media website (Twitter), telling them
that his win was not a fate or an accident: “Four more years . . . this
happened because of you.” Obama said pointing out that the ordinary Americans can
overcome powerful interests.
"Tonight in this election, you, the American people,
reminded us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been long,
we have picked ourselves up," Obama said in a victory speech in his
hometown of Chicago. "We have fought our way back and we know in our
hearts for the United States of America, the best is yet to come."
In the local context here in Sudan, the matter didn’t get much
attention like what happened in the previous election, when Obama won his first
term in office, and that, I think, is due to the lack of changes in the U.S
foreign policy and particularly toward the Sudan-U.S. relations, especially with
the latest decision by the U.S administration of renewal sanctions on Sudan,
which dashed any hope of normalizing ties between the two countries.
It seems that, Obama’s promise “the best is yet to come"
is only for his people, as some observers noted that the U.S. elections and
their result do not concern the Sudan in anyway, because the U.S. foreign
policy doesn’t change by one person or party.
So if there is no change gonna come from the American side
and that the U.S. doesn’t fulfill its pledges to Sudan to lift the economic
sanctions and lift the country name from the list of terrorism sponsoring
states, the change, I think, should come from the Sudanese side!, as the
proverb goes “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are
challenged to change ourselves”.
2 comments:
This is another good article, brother Ayman. I agree with you that the American policy towards Sudan will remain as it is. No change, at least for the few coming years. That is why our people were indifferent to the result of the presidential race and to who would reside the White House.
If we have the right to dream of a change then we should first change the way we rule our country and the way we communicate with others.
Tons of congrats to the US people. They did well today by offering a free lesson to all peoples who are aspiring to freedom and humanity.
Thanks Ustaz Omer.
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