It seems that the Nation head of State will visit the USA in the few coming months. The event is important and may open new opportunities for our country. The President will talk with an administration engaged in a great effort to spread freedom and democracy around the Arab World. He will, without doubt, hear speeches from people he respects about the necessity of good and efficient governance. He might argue that the country is very fine compared with other members of the Arab-league but, even thought there are reasons to believe him, the argument will not take. Most of the foreign and domestic observers have different conclusions and support the need for the Mauritanian Government to address national issues such as corruption and due process. I am sure that the President will also be struck by the difference between the USA and Europe and how a Nation of immigrants who have nothing in common except a 200 years old constitution and the rule of law became the most powerful and feared country on earth. He will be in touch with national institutions, policy makers and implementers, whose effectiveness constitutes the basis of the American leading role in the World. There are no reasons to believe that the President will not be impacted and I bet he will.The tiny Mauritanian community in USA should help to make this visit a success in a sense congruent with the present national climate of dialogue. They should denounce the false campaign of identifying our country with what is happening in Sudan. It's just not true. I know that those instigating and orchestrating this propaganda have, for the most part, made their mind and already lost any hope in the ability of the present national leadership to reform itself. That,of course, does not give them any excuses or rights to lie and/or to undermine the effort of those who are trying hardly and under enormous pressure to advance the cause of democracy in our country.
Our Nation is in a critical situation but we should not loose the hope to see positive changes that will bring it back to the right path. We need to be realistic and get away as much as possible from the tendency to overlook those among the elite who are struggling inside the country, in a harsh environment, to make this hope a reality. They deserve our support and recognition. Having left the country, we did in a way give up to let other decide in our place. Our action will be as effective as our ability to subordinate our effort to those who stayed inside the country. They know more than us and therefore should decide better than we do the way to conduct business in the political and social arena. The inverse will be a distraction.
In this regard, Jemil Ould Mansour showed the right leadership by returning to the country after an asylum trail in Belgium. He, I am sure, weighted the Pro's and the Con's and saw that he has much to loose by staying out of the combat field. The political activists should meditate his example. Jemil and all others leaders of the opposition parties are calling for dialogue and a bi-partisan effort is made to bring people together to find consensual solutions to national issues. Let's givea chance to this new dynamic and focus on the best way to make the Nation head of State a part of it, not against it. It's the Nation interest.
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