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US President-elect Barack Obama: Sri Lanka afflicted with "problem of the other"

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US President-elect Barack Obama: Sri Lanka afflicted with "problem of the other"

Characterizing the conflict in Sri Lanka as a "vicious civil war" President-elect Barack Obama said during an interview that "the problem of the 21st century is the problem of the other." He described this phenomenon as the inability of people to accommodate others "who are not like us " and mentioned Sri Lanka as an example pointing out that war rages even when "everybody there looks exactly the same."

Characterization of conflicts in the 21st century this way Obama said is an extention to the American Civil Rights era activist W.E. Dubois' quote "The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line."

This problem of �the other� afflicted places like Sri Lanka Northern Ireland and the issue of race within the United States he said.

Barack Obama also criticized the Bush administration's "war on terror" as the cause for suppressing civil liberties saying: "[P]art of my job as next president is to break the fever of fear that has been exploited by this administration. We are told to be afraid of terrorists immigrants and each other. This becomes the means by which our civil liberties are subverted [and] our values are distorted " implying policy changes are in order.

He promised a break from the Bush-Cheney diplomacy: �a willingness to speak to our adversaries " and cited President Kennedy saying �we should never negotiate out of fear but we should never fear to negotiate.�

�The notion that not talking with leaders we don�t like makes us look tough is fundamentally flawed. It makes us look arrogant and sends a message to the world that we are not listening.�

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பழசுகளை போட்டு போட்டு சாங்களை உருவேத்ததேங்கொ.....

இண்டைக்கு ஒபாமா என்ன சொல்ல வைக்கவேணுமெண்டு யோசிங்கோ.

US President-elect Barack Obama: Sri Lanka afflicted with "problem of the other"

தலைப்பை மாற்றுங்கள்!

Mr. Obama is the US President now . Cannont be called President-Elect anymore.

He made the above quote 'Problem of the other' during his run for nomination for the presidency

Edited by vettri-vel

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