A Message to Dear Mr. President Obama…who visited and left a lot to be desired 

It could have been a visit, which could have discussed some great possibilities, like reverse migration, which in a global world, should happen, if we all are, anywhere near or moving close, to be a Global Economic Fraternity, which will spreads its wing all over the globe and conquer, worlds beyond, and not just limit itself to, a planet called, Earth.

America needs to recognize and partner India, which has a much better track record on all fronts, economic growth, wealth distribution parity (leading to relatively less social unrest unlike china where there is a real possibility of it) and peaceful use of its technology and military might.

US consumption credit driven consumption will not last forever as can be seen in many European countries faltering on mounting debt, both internal and external, and it needs to find ways to improve productivity (to some extent technology driven productivity helps), improve penetration in already accessible markets, find new markets, adopt some austerity measures itself rather than advising others and also export its entrepreneurship culture along with its manufacturing hubs to friendly or neutral countries.

US also need to recognize that it can not be parenting, policing or punishing the world, as and when it pleases to. It has to accommodate and make way for rising countries just like intelligent parents make way once their children grow up, stop interfering in all the matters and allow children to carve a path of their own, even if it is not, what they thought or wanted their children to pursue. A friend, in the long run, will turn out to be a far better resource, than a child being nurtured all the way.

Dollar as a currency still dominates and EURO, Yen or Yuan are still struggling to be the trade currency choice but the day is not far when economic leadership will become far more powerful than political, military or cultural leadership. Then, we may see formation of tightly knit “Global Economic Zones” where barter and not the currency will rule.

Having said that US has many positives, a resilient economy (and the largest still), highly advanced technological capabilities in many areas if not all, a very liberal culture, great entrepreneurship oriented workforce and a melting pot of intelligence, if not wisdom, from all over the world.

There were huge expectation from Obama - first Afro-American, Harvard educated, supposedly a no-nonsense reformist leader, when he became president, who had nothing to lose but had an opportunity to usher in a new era in the world and may be even take all into a new orbit, in the space – the final frontier. It turns out that he is just another colored politician, whose colors now have been washed away with heavy rains, marking him as just a black man and not the Martin Luther King, so many had expected, had reborn.

It will be wise of him, now that expectation from him have worn away, to bring in some dramatic changes in the world, while he still has a year left and walk the real talk than making promises he has not the capability to deliver anymore. If he can do so and adopt certain suggestion being advanced by well wishing friends, and I count as India one of them, he can still rise from the ashes, and make America once again what it stood for and the world a close community, he will go down in the pages of history, as the proverbial black gold and not just as the eagle ,which only once soared so high in the sky, that it burnt its feathers in the super shining Sun and fell back to from where it had once taken the flight to soar high, forever.

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