Baku-APA. Every gesture. Every word uttered or avoided. Every person Barack Obama speaks with, listens to and stands beside in Hiroshima. All of it will help determine the success of a trip with huge potential political and diplomatic pitfalls, both in America and Asia, APA reports quoting the Associated Press.
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The leader of the United States is already one of the world’s most watched people. But that daily scrutiny will be magnified exponentially when Obama makes the first presidential journey to the place where the first atomic bomb attack killed tens of thousands 71 years ago.
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Obama’s mere presence among the nightmare images of death and destruction that linger in Hiroshima will be what most casual observers will remember. But there are many other people with deep political and personal interests in Northeast Asia’s long-running history battles who will be eager to parse Obama’s every move.
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Bomb victims will be looking for compassion. Many in neighboring countries and the United States will want clear condemnation of Imperial Japan’s colonial and wartime atrocities — and not a whiff of anything that could be seen as an apology for what they see as justified bombs. And nonproliferation experts will want proof that Obama is working to “earn†the Nobel Peace Prize he received for advocating a world without nuclear weapons.
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