In coming January 2009, when world would be celebrating arrival of change of a new year, a radical change of seat of power will take place in America's White House. The historical judgment which American people gave on 4th of November 2008 by electing a first Black-African democrat President - Mr. Barack Obama on the slogan “Change we need” instead of a Republican candidate and Vietnam War hero - Mr. John McCain will result in Mr. Obama taking the place of US President - Mr. George W. Bush. Through this also history will witness the change of position of first lady, Mrs. Obama or Mrs. Michelle LaVaughn Obama taking the position of present first lady – Mrs. Laura Bush – the vocal champion of Burma’s democratic cause. The outgoing US President might be villain in some West Asian Countries for his policy on Iraq but his last term will be remembered as a great friend of India like Mr. Obama’s recent view’s that, “India is not a threat to Pakistan but militants and terrorism?” I hope that the new democratic President of America would fulfill the unfinished task of great democratic leader – John F. Kennedy of making close and strong US-India relations, which become casualty of cold-war politics.
US first lady Mrs. Laura Bush hit international media headlines in the year 2006 for the demand of unconditional release of Nobel laureate – Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, when she hosted a ‘forum on Burma’s democratic cause’ at UN headquarters. However then, She expressed vehemently that, “her long-standing concern about Burma is not new to media person’s and it began several years ago when she learned the compelling story of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate incarcerated in house arrest since her party won elections in 1990 and the Burmese military rejected the electoral result.” Her reaction about Burma’s ruling military Junta was that, so far as we can tell, military thumb their nose at the rest of the world but that doesn't mean the rest of the world shouldn't continue to speak out about these issues. When great Saffron revolution of monks took place in Burma in August-September last year, she was among first to make a call like Daw Suu Kyi made in 1988 democratic revolution to Burmese soldiers that, “Don’t fire on your people but join the movement.”
However then, Mrs. Laura Bush was strongly criticized by many Burma political analysts and even in Burma blogs that, she doesn’t know the subject and country but she is attempting to dwell into the area without achieving any results for becoming important. For the critiques of Mrs. Laura Bush, every time I read attack’s on her one famous immortal statement of America’s one of the greatest leader - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. echoed in my ear, that, “If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness. And this morning, the thing that I like about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.”
Every time when I found Mrs. Laura Bush speaking for Daw Suu Kyi’s freedom, I waited with pain expecting golden missed call from Indian National Congress Party President - Mrs. Sonia Gandhi to speak in same manners. But I never heard even a word from her in recent times, which she spoke many years back. I know, she wants to speak but the powerful lobby of foreign policy experts at South Block in New Delhi prevented her that it will jeopardize the relations with Burma’s military junta.
When the news first broke in India, that, Mr. Barack Obama is going to be the new President of America, every media - print or electronic draw a line with conclusion that, Mr. Barack Obama is very much influenced by Mahatma Gandhi. Even political leaders spoke about that. One is praising – Mr. Barack Obama as a philosophical disciple of Mahatma Gandhi because he is successful in becoming President of America. But the same media and leaders feel shy of asking vocally for the release of another philosophical disciple of Mahatma Gandhi - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi suffering under military rule because she is presently not in power.
Mrs. Laura Bush would be not there as a US first Lady in White House after coming January and Mrs. Michelle LaVaughn Obama will be there and those wants genuine democratic change in Burma and freedom of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will miss her greatly. Mrs. Obama – a trained American lawyer of law firm ‘Sidley Austin’ and alumni of the University of Chicago had maintained a safe distance from the politics during Mr. Obama’s senatorial tenure giving more attention to the family. The new coming US First Lady’s policy of maintaining distance & balance from politics had been more related to giving chance to the American people to interact more with Mr. Barack Obama.
Now the question emerges that the new first lady – Mrs. Obama, who knows international law better as a practicing lawyer then outgoing First Lady – Mrs. Laura Bush, who had Master Degree of Library Science speak like Mrs. Bush on Burma and unlawful detention of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi or not? Whether, she would be another Laura Bush on Burma’s democratic question or need subject and verb agree to serve like the silence of Congress President – Mrs. Sonia Gandhi and BJP leader – Shri Lal Krishna Advani?
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US first lady Mrs. Laura Bush hit international media headlines in the year 2006 for the demand of unconditional release of Nobel laureate – Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, when she hosted a ‘forum on Burma’s democratic cause’ at UN headquarters. However then, She expressed vehemently that, “her long-standing concern about Burma is not new to media person’s and it began several years ago when she learned the compelling story of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate incarcerated in house arrest since her party won elections in 1990 and the Burmese military rejected the electoral result.” Her reaction about Burma’s ruling military Junta was that, so far as we can tell, military thumb their nose at the rest of the world but that doesn't mean the rest of the world shouldn't continue to speak out about these issues. When great Saffron revolution of monks took place in Burma in August-September last year, she was among first to make a call like Daw Suu Kyi made in 1988 democratic revolution to Burmese soldiers that, “Don’t fire on your people but join the movement.”
However then, Mrs. Laura Bush was strongly criticized by many Burma political analysts and even in Burma blogs that, she doesn’t know the subject and country but she is attempting to dwell into the area without achieving any results for becoming important. For the critiques of Mrs. Laura Bush, every time I read attack’s on her one famous immortal statement of America’s one of the greatest leader - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. echoed in my ear, that, “If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness. And this morning, the thing that I like about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.”
Every time when I found Mrs. Laura Bush speaking for Daw Suu Kyi’s freedom, I waited with pain expecting golden missed call from Indian National Congress Party President - Mrs. Sonia Gandhi to speak in same manners. But I never heard even a word from her in recent times, which she spoke many years back. I know, she wants to speak but the powerful lobby of foreign policy experts at South Block in New Delhi prevented her that it will jeopardize the relations with Burma’s military junta.
When the news first broke in India, that, Mr. Barack Obama is going to be the new President of America, every media - print or electronic draw a line with conclusion that, Mr. Barack Obama is very much influenced by Mahatma Gandhi. Even political leaders spoke about that. One is praising – Mr. Barack Obama as a philosophical disciple of Mahatma Gandhi because he is successful in becoming President of America. But the same media and leaders feel shy of asking vocally for the release of another philosophical disciple of Mahatma Gandhi - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi suffering under military rule because she is presently not in power.
Mrs. Laura Bush would be not there as a US first Lady in White House after coming January and Mrs. Michelle LaVaughn Obama will be there and those wants genuine democratic change in Burma and freedom of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will miss her greatly. Mrs. Obama – a trained American lawyer of law firm ‘Sidley Austin’ and alumni of the University of Chicago had maintained a safe distance from the politics during Mr. Obama’s senatorial tenure giving more attention to the family. The new coming US First Lady’s policy of maintaining distance & balance from politics had been more related to giving chance to the American people to interact more with Mr. Barack Obama.
Now the question emerges that the new first lady – Mrs. Obama, who knows international law better as a practicing lawyer then outgoing First Lady – Mrs. Laura Bush, who had Master Degree of Library Science speak like Mrs. Bush on Burma and unlawful detention of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi or not? Whether, she would be another Laura Bush on Burma’s democratic question or need subject and verb agree to serve like the silence of Congress President – Mrs. Sonia Gandhi and BJP leader – Shri Lal Krishna Advani?
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