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The election of Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, to the US presidency in 2008 signaled a change in the American foreign policy. During his election campaign, President Obama made all the right vibes and touched the relevant chords. His election slogan, change, inspired hopes among the Americans at home and the millions of people in the rest of the world who looked in Obama’s person a deliverer. The US president’s maiden speech after oath-taking and his subsequent address in Cairo promised the beginning of a new chapter with the Muslim world ‘based on shared values and common interests’. Obama acknowledged that the relations between US and the Muslims had touched all time low under President Bush and there was a need to reverse the tide in the greater interest of global peace and harmony in the world.

Underscoring the importance of giving State Department a superior role over the hawkish Pentagon, President Obama appointed his two special envoys for Pakistan-Afghanistan and the Middle East. In a marked departure from the Bush era’s national security strategy, which was characterized by the policy of preemption, the Obama administration has come up with a new strategy. The 31-page National Security Strategy Paper of the Bush era identified the potential areas of threat to the US. ‘The regions where technology and fundamentalism met’ were put on the hot spot of the US security calculus. “We cannot defend America and our friends by hoping for the best…In the new world we have entered, the only path to peace and security