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The world after Bush



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The world is still coming to terms with the election of Barack Obama to arguably the most powerful job in the world, president of the United States.

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However, after eight years of a George Bush presidency that has encompassed the 9/11 attacks in New York, bloody and interminable wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and now the global financial crisis, Obama will face many challenges on the world stage.

In a special one-hour show, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst Marwan Bishara looks at what impact Obama's foreign policy will have on the world.

The panel analyse the Bush legacy and its consequences for Obama's presidency. They also question how much of a departure from Bush's policies or doctrine will be possible.

What will president Obama
mean for the world? [AFP]
It is still also very early to predict what specifically an Obama foreign policy will mean to people in the rest of the world and what the election of the country's first African-American president says about the US today.

Obama has written that his views were first shaped by how people reacted to America's promotion of capitalism, its tolerance and occasional encouragement of tyranny.

President-elect Obama would seem to be ideally placed to understand the hostility towards America in the South and particularly in the Arab and Islamic worlds.

As an African-American arrives in the White House and the US enters a new dawn of leadership, Al Jazeera asks whether this means an end to the US wars abroad.


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axmed
United States
08/11/2008
Obama can help
Obama can help heal the rift, only if he stays true to his promise and brings the troops home. To me that's what it means the world after Bush.

D. L. GRAHAM
United States
10/11/2008
MEDVEDEV AND PUTIN
The shift will be a dramatic one from the falling star or Pox America, to the rising star of the New Russia, and its dynamic duo Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimire Putin, and the decline of the American Dollar and Treasury Bill's against the Euro, and the (EU)

Mohammed Abdisalam
Somalia
10/11/2008
United stated
Obama can help heal the rift, only if he stays true to his promise and brings the troops home. To me that's what it means the world after Bush. the man who said this feedback is righ and i support his speech that is all

Rodthesod
United Kingdom
11/11/2008
The world after George Bush
Too much is being asked of Barak Obama. He cannot change the world. He needs to keep one eye on the press. That press is hostile to those who do anything to improve things for Palestinians. Why, because the newspapers are predominantly run by Jews. this reduces his scope not only in that region but elsewhere as if he changes the overseas development budget he will be seen as anti semitic because Israel gets the majority of that budget. At home his every move can be criticised by the religious TV

Hemalkrel Qwerutie
United States
09/11/2008
Bush and his evangelical conservative christian zionist are the big losers. The world was right to kick their arrogant corrupt behinds out of office. Obama only have to be honest and non-hypocrital. It's unfortunate that many on the right have a problem with him being muslim, even though he professes christianity in the liberation form. Rev Wright should be very proud of himself for grooming the first black president to change the image of this nation for 4 years. Racism is a sickness guys.

Hilary Cathcart
United States
10/11/2008
World after Bush
Asalam alaikum, Hemalkrel. While I agree with most of what you say, I must take exception to a few of your observations. Calling George Bush a "Christian Zionist" does not make sense. He is a born again Christian. What does Zionism have to do with it? Also, Barack Obama is a Christian, not a Muslim. I don't think ones religion matters, however. The problem is extremism. Barack Obama will hopefully be able to mend the terrible rifts caused by Bush and his right wing extremist toadies.

Tawfik
United States
11/11/2008
White Mans Burden
In the video the accusation was made that America has for the last century been trying to continue colonialism under the banner of the "white man's burden". Maybe the actions of the US in the last century were more positive mindset. After WWI the US goal was self determination for nations that had been victims of Europe's colonial past. After WWII they started the UN and helped work to form the 180+ independent countries there are now. The US is not so bad maybe.

Josh Reuben
United States
11/11/2008
Obama...
I think Barack Obama will help the Jews like he promised to. "I will always take Israel's side no matter what" -Obama. He has always been a strong supporter of the Zionists and even hired a Jew as his cheif advisor. He will also capture Bin Laden just like he said he would. By the way he is a Christian and married to an African American Christian.

 
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