Whoever becomes the next president, he or she will face certain domestic as well as international issues
ISLAMABAD: Recent polls and debates have shown the obvious victory of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee for the US presidential election. Arguably, Clinton’s opponent Donald Trump is far behind her as far as political maturity and experience are concerned. Trump is a businessman, ill-tempered, highly controversial, conservative and extremely chauvinist. The expertise of former secretary of state in handling the issues of core political nature would compel the Americans to prefer her to the politically novice Trump.
Whoever becomes the next president, he or she will face certain domestic as well as international issues that require the incumbent’s ability to deal with the issues of high magnitude, as America has been on the quest for world leadership since the Cold War with the Soviet Union started. However, with great power comes great responsibility; America had to intervene in international issues ranging from economic aid to less-developed countries to the war on terror. This is the reason that Chinese economy has overtaken the US, as endorsed by the International Monetary Fund. It will now be difficult for the next US president to exceed China while maintaining the status quo.
Additionally, the US will have to curtail the growing Chinese naval power. For the US, China is equally important as Russia. Russia is also threatening the world with a lethal confrontation if the US does not mend its policies.
While Hillary is stressing American moralism and humanitarian values, the domestic problems of Islamophobia, racial differences and the arms laws are some of the issues that need special attention. The Democratic Party is in favour of amending the arms law of the country and contrary to that, the Republican Party is a hard nut to crack as far as the amendment to the Constitution is concerned. If Clinton is elected as president, there would be less threat to domestic and external peace and stability, for she is a polite and diplomatic person. Americans should not take risk of appointing Trump as their president, agreeing with what Clinton said in her speech, “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.”
Mazhar Ali
Published in The Express Tribune, November 1st , 2016.
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