Obama must not break his campaign promises

According to the Slovenian daily Večer, US President Barack Obama is every bit the pragmatist: "One thing is clear: Obama will above all attempt to ease the tensions between the West and the Islamic World brought about by his predecessor George W. Bush. This is important not only for the cooperation between two religions and cultures, but for global cooperation and security as a whole. With his Muslim roots, Obama has shown himself to be a pragmatist in recent months. If he doesn't solve the conflict altogether, at least he won't worsen it. But Obama too has his own problem. Even if people are not talking about it publicly, a majority of the Muslim world resents the fact that he broke his promise to close the Guantánamo Bay prison immediately. ... If he also breaks his electoral promise to withdraw the US army from Iraq by mid 2010, all the pragmatism in the world isn't going to help him."

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