thoughtbuilder
US, NATO missile defense shield in eastern Europe
In my blunt but candid opinion, the American justification that Europe and the US have grave threats from both Iran and the North Korean Missile system, does not bear any logical understanding. Any one who may have some reasonable understanding about the international relations and the intervening American trajectory to controll the transregional military domination, would certaily discard and jettision, without any let and confusion, this American -advocated tactical thesis.
Multilateralism, not unilateralism,should be the bedrock of
Interestingly, the governments go and come, yet the neoconservatives' foreign policy choice is fixed like a nothern star in the sky( having their strong attraction towards the gravity of unilteralism). This policy syndrome has been experienced eversince the end of the Cold war era. But in the post 9/11 world, with the very beginning of the US- envisaged era of neo- geopolitics ushered in by the US imposed war on terror, the US's foreign policy seems to have been more obsessed with unilaterlistic tendencies/ approches, the reflections of which are nore glavanised by the US policies set in both Iraq and Afghnaistan.Yet the time has come that the coming policy makers hailing from any political camp- the Republican or the Democratic, should give prime importance to the interantional norms of multilaterism- the only beacon of hope that may restore the sick world order towards the betterment of the mankind.
Obama's hard policy gesture towards Pakistan: need to revise
It goes without saying that Senator Brack Obama's policy stand towards Pakistan reflects that he is going to adopt slightly a harder policy regarding US war on terror as he is of the opinion to send the US military troops inside pakistani territory in quest of searching /combating Al Qaeeda's terrorists.Yet seen from a pragmatist point of view, it seems that following such policy options may not be welcomed by the future government in Pakistan since the majority public opinion in Pakistan holds the conviction that allowing US military focres to take action inside the pakistani territory , would be tantamount to compromising with Pakistan's territorial integrity/ sovereignity- a fact that both the government and the people of Pakistan can never alllow it. Keeping such an inescapable truth in mind, it looks very important that Mr Obama has to revisit his policy stand on Pakistan.
