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Gandhi Wuz Robbed

By MAUREEN DOWD

Two former presidents hash out, and bond over, who should have been candidates for the
Nobel Peace Prize.

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Prof Slobodan Lang, MD, FRCH
Zagreb, Croatia
October 11th, 2009
12:17 pm
We no longer live in a western world, where people should be good and just in line with
values and power of such world. Imposing western world on others is wrong regardless of its
intention and lead to clashes of civilizations. Every individual, country, religion ... have a
responsibility to treat everybody else as a neighbor next door. We live in a time when we need
common vision of a world for all. Gandhi had such a vision and he didn't loose a prize to
Kissinger but to Quakers, who really merit respect for respect for doing good. Since 1989, end
of cold war, we need a new global vision. American Presidents since then failed to deliver,
Bush older because of unconcern, Clinton for lack of deeper thinking and Bush Jr. was
completely disoriented. It is true that Clinton did do good things, but he didn't reach the level
of a vision. Obama is a younger man who has shown signs that he will take responsibility of
facing existing problems, but above all deliver a new vision for all. Let's open to a global
vision and start it with Obama speech on 10, December 2009.
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