openDemocracy-Barack Obama: hope, fear... advice
By Carne Ross
Published in openDemocracy, 19 January
2009
We asked some of our authors around the world to respond to the following:
"About the Barack Obama administration, please tell us:
"1 one thing you hope for
"2 one thing you fear
"3 one piece of advice you would give."
Carne Ross's reply:
"1 That the United States pays more heed to local realities, and less
to abstractions whether neo-conservative or liberal
"2 That neocon blinkers will be replaced by liberal ones
"3
Do the right thing in Western Sahara, forgotten till today and where
only the US can make a difference: by at last pressuring Morocco to
allow self-determination and free the Saharawi people."
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