Wednesday 21 January 2009

A New Start ?

The inagauration of President Obama seems to have been greeted with something like the enthusiasm you might expect for the second coming in many quartes. Time will tell how much of a real new start this event may be for America and the whole world but it is worth reminding ourselves that the decisions that the new president takes will have ramifications for us all. After all, it was the decisions taken by his predecessor, George W. Bush in the aftermath of 9/11 that led to members of the military from our own region fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.

2 comments:

silverton siren said...

My pal in the US told me yesterday that they were - to quote Martin Luther King - "free at last" - she meant free of the Moron Dubya. Being a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, she has been waiting eight long years for this.

babyblox said...

I have just watched the part of the inauguration on YouTube where the crowd boos Bush and a US TV commentator asks "Why are they booing?". Silly question - because most of them were too far away to throw things. To quote Cromwell, "In the name of God, go!"