- The following article was published on the opinion page
of the daily Al-Ahram of Cairo, Egypt, on July 4th, 2002. Arabic readers
may read the original at http://web1.ahram.org.eg/Ahram/Arab/2002/7/4/Opin7.html
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- The Vision Of Lyndon LaRouche
- By Sohair Soukkary
- Al-Ahram
- 7-4-2
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- In the last few years, Lyndon LaRouche's star has started
to shine again on the American and international political scene: he has
started to receive much more frequent and intense attention than ever in
American and international radio and television networks and on the Internet,
mostly because virtually all of his economic and political predictions
have turned out to be true after his many years of absence from the scene
when he served time in jail on account of charges fabricated against him
by Kissinger and his cabal in collusion with some highly-placed officials
of the Department of Justice in a malicious attempt to silence him and
prevent his voice from being heard by American and world public opinion.
They obviously feared his infinite candor in expressing his opinions which
started to spread like wildfire and which, had he been allowed to bring
with him if elected President, would have threatened the interests of
many an influential group of self-seeking plutocrats and Zionists who
control the destinies of peoples by controlling the monetary-financial
markets of the world.
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- One of the more notable of Mr. LaRouche's traits is that
he is the first American politician in our times who holds that American
interests can be ensured only within the context of recognizing and equally
ensuring the interests of humanity at large. He does not believe in war
of any kind as a means of serving those interests. In his view, recourse
to war should be had only as a last resort and for the sole purpose of
establishing peace. On the other hand, he is of the opinion that the United
States is currently on the verge of a far more horrendous economic collapse
than that of the thirties of the last century and will take the world along
with it to that baleful end, all on account of the foolish economic policies
adopted since 1971, which have undermined the solid foundations on which
the world economy had rested after the Second World War thanks to the enlightened
economic policies formulated by Roosevelt and embraced by his successors.
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- What has made things even worse is that the advocates
of these foolish economic policies can find no way out of the catastrophe
to which they will inevitably lead save by taking even more foolish measures
which can be summed up as follows: (a) to unleash the clash of civilizations
operation; (b) to instigate a bogus, endless war under the spurious slogan
of a war against terrorism: (c) to seek, under another spurious slogan,
namely that of "globalization", to impose the hegemony of the
United States over the world through the establishment of a Roman-style
empire protected by legions similar to the Waffen SS forces which the Nazis
formed to protect the system they envisioned for the post-war world.
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- Faced with this at once dismal and frightening situation,
LaRouche, alone among American politicians of any weight, has a detailed
program, based on firm scientific, economic and humanitarian grounds, to
overcome this crisis and prevent the expected catastrophe. Among the features
that stand out in his program are: (a) the promotion of cooperation, rather
than conflict, among civilizations; (b) ensuring the development and well-being
of all the peoples of the world through such far-reaching projects as the
establishment of land-bridges or transportation corridors consisting of
long-distance rail lines or high speed magnetic levitation systems linking
Europe, Asia and Africa as well America, together with parallel water supply
systems that would bring development and prosperity to the vast arid spaces
along the way, to say nothing of power stations to supply energy for such
areas.
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- Another trait of Mr. LaRouche's that is of particular
concern to us as Arabs and Muslims is to be found in the following facts:
it is needless to say that no American politician dares utter a single
word of criticism of Zionism or Israel, either because he/she is already
bought by the Zionists or for fear of bringing on his/her head the wrath
of the Zionists who need send out only one signal to label the culprit
as anti-semite and wreck his/her political career for good. On the contrary,
American politicians are quick to support and defend Israel however horrible
its crimes, and they consider all those who resist Israeli occupation as
terrorists. Not so LaRouche.
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- Throughout his political career, he has been known for
his opposition to Zionism and his explicit criticism of the criminal policies
of Israel, especially under Sharon, as well as for his support of Palestinian
rights, his refusal to accuse them of terrorism and his attacks on the
so-called Christian Zionists. With their wonted ferocious slander-mongering,
the Zionists have tried hard to label him with anti-semitism, but they
have failed miserably because he has never in his life uttered a single
word against Jews or Judaism or, for that matter, been less than zealous
in opposing all Nazi-like, fascist or racist ideas and defending the rights
of all minorities, both native and immigrant, including, in particular,
Arabs and Muslims.
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- In order to have a better understanding of this declared
Presidential candidate and of his political program as well as of his vision
of American domestic and foreign policies, with special reference to the
Arab world, specifically Egypt, and to the Question of Palestine, I began
my research by first accessing his weekly bulletins on his website in the
Internet and reading through his monthly magazine, Executive Intelligence
Review (EIR). I also attended one of his presidential election campaign
meetings in Washington D.C. Finally, I conducted an interview with him
that lasted for some 45 minutes.
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- I append below, with no comment, some of Mr. LaRouche's
personal views on a number of issues:
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- With regard to the Question of Palestine and Israel,
Mr. LaRouche has always stated that he considers the cause at issue in
the Middle East a just cause, and, in the context of his declared attempt
to save civilization, he is therefore obliged to respond to it as a just
cause. He likens the situation in that area to a hand-grenade thrown at
civilization that will inevitably destroy itself in the process. He points
out that though Israel is the third biggest nuclear power in the world,
it is destroying itself; and while Rabin and a few others in Israel have
recognized its plight, there are those other groups of crazy fanatics who
suffer from a "Masada complex" and who are stupidly willing to
die and kill others to realize their aims. But they can never win the kind
of warfare they are trying to wage in that area, nor will they ever be
able to have the empire they are dreaming of. According to Mr. LaRouche,
they are being exploited, since in fact they are intended to be used and
then discarded if and when they win.
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- As to his proposals concerning the Question of Palestine,
it is to be noted that Mr. LaRouche has recently issued a statement in
which he cautioned President Bush against repeating the mistakes of ex-President
Clinton. In the statement, Mr. LaRouche says that President Bush has but
one problem which he must face personally if he is going to escape successfully
from the trap set for him by both the Lieberman-Brzezinski-Wolwowitz-Kissinger
cabal and the majority who support them among his current advisors. He
must stand before a mirror and decide to forget the election campaign,
and think and act like the kind of President the Constitution implies.
He should remember President Eisenhower and the decisive way he acted during
the Suez crisis in the middle of his re-election campaign. Clinton, the
statement recalls, failed on several counts on which he acted more like
a sponsor and lawyer for Ehud Barak's career than as the President of the
United States, including when Barak set the President as a patsy and Clinton
swallowed it.
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- Clinton's biggest mistake, however, was the one which
led to Sharon assuming power and conducting the Nazi Warsaw-ghetto-like
operations against the Palestinian people: for when Chairman Arafat was
ready to sign his agreement to whatever had been agreed upon during the
Camp David talks, Clinton brought up the issue of the religious sites,
such as the Temple Mount; and when Arafat demurred, Clinton surprised the
world by publicly blaming Arafat rather than Barak for the failure of the
Camp David talks. He thus created the circumstances under which Sharon
has unleashed the present campaign of religious warfare and given free
rein to the ethnic cleansing policies of his Likud party.
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- The statement emphasizes that no President of the United
States should ever permit any political or personal pressures to cause
him to forget the unique meaning of the words "President of the United
States of America" among the governments of the world. The statement
has therefore called upon President Bush to take a Presidential rather
than a partisan or political or career decision. At any moment in which
the nature of the constitutional office of President is at stake, any decision
by the President should be dictated by the public interest even if it were
to run against his own personal interest. Such a moment, such a decision,
the statement points out, hovers before President Bush right now.
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- Among other things, Mr. LaRouche called for the adoption
of decisive measures with regard to finding a solution to the Question
of Palestine, meaning the immediate establishment of a Palestinian state
headed by Arafat. The interests of the United States as well as those
of its European allies require an historic intervention if these interests
are to be saved. As one who fully understands what the Constitution implies
for the office of the President of the United States, Mr. LaRouche is sure
he knows how to give that office its due when, as he hopes, he is elected
President.
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