EDITORIAL
‘We Are Not Animals. We Are Human Beings!’
May 17 (EIRNS)—Schiller Institute President Helga Zepp-LaRouche today called on people around the world to speak out on the urgency of a summit between Presidents Putin and Trump occurring as quickly as possible, for the sake of global peace. A summit where the two leaders can take all the time needed to discuss and develop flanks which will create new options for resolving the difficult and complex crises of the world, she specified.
There are no partial remedies to any one of these crises, Zepp-LaRouche made clear in her weekly Schiller Institute New Paradigm broadcast today.
Take the case of Southwest Asia, where the threat of war being unleashed at any moment between Israel and Hamas, Hezbollah, and potentially Iran, is escalating, not receding. The ease with which these could lead to the biggest of wars is known to all. Already, even without that, the region is in Hell, Zepp-LaRouche charged. “The situation in the Gaza is an open-air jail; it’s a new Warsaw Ghetto.”
Zepp-LaRouche put forward the argument that her husband Lyndon LaRouche has made over decades: For this region which has been a playground for British imperialism running proxy wars and inflaming religious hatred for centuries, where an escalation of violence is pre-programmed by youth who see no future, “the only way you can break this terrible nightmare of violence and horror is by having a Four Power agreement among the United States, Russia, China, and India, and that way, you have enough people and enough military, political, and economic power to end the British Empire and their ability manipulate the situation.”
In Southwest Asia, a solution to the hatred and humanitarian catastrophes requires a comprehensive strategy, which provides for both the security interests of every country and every single party—of Israel, Iran, the Palestinians and all Arab nations—and initiates economic development: big development.
“You need something big, and the only way you could get it, is if you had all the neighbors, Russia, China, India, Iran, Egypt, the United States, and hopefully European nations all agreeing that the only way how this can be solved, is, you have to have the extension of the New Silk Road into the region and develop every country as part of one, integrated, industrial infrastructure development program,” Zepp-LaRouche spelled out. Some people are already thinking in this direction, discussing the gigantic projects required which no one country can carry out. And that includes people in Israel who agree with this, also.
Clearly, to reach such an agreement, Trump and Putin have to meet, and thus “if world peace is to be saved, the British coup [against President Trump] must be uncovered completely. All the culprits must be held accountable.”
In closing, the Schiller Institute president took a step back to identify the clear grounds for optimism that this radical change can be accomplished, in time:
“If you look at this from a longer arc of history, it is not natural that people solve conflict with weapons or wars. This I always call the infant diseases of mankind. Like little boys who kick each in the shins when they are four years old, or even seven years old. Eventually, you can become an adult, and you have to cherish the creative mind of the other person and work together like Max Planck and Einstein; like Schiller and Humboldt; you can have a relationship to other countries where you address the creative potential of the other and that enriches in turn, your own potential.
“I think the future of humanity, which is after all the only species capable of creative reason, of making fundamental discoveries about universal principles of the physical universe, again and again, and that way develop more knowledge about our planet, the universe in which we are living, about the principles of science and technology, which we then apply in the production process which leads to an increase in productivity, which leads to an increase in living standards, an increase in longevity,—this is what we are! We are not animals. We are human beings, who are the only species, at least known so far, in the universe, which can relate to their creative power as their identity.
“And if we take that approach, then, to have many nations, and to have many cultures all based on their cultural tradition, all based on their sovereignty, they can work together to a higher level of reason, and that is the only way mankind will survive!
“I think we are at a crossroads: If we decide to stay with geopolitics, in this world, this will lead to World War III, for all we know, the extinction of our species. On the other side, the New Paradigm is already working, 140 countries are already cooperating, and I think we need a mass movement of people who say, mankind has reached a new era and we must consciously form our future, our ‘shared community for the future of mankind,’ as Xi Jinping always calls it.”
STRATEGIC WAR DANGER
President Trump Confirms That Libya ‘Is Not Our Model’ for North Korea
May 17 (EIRNS)—Directly contradicting his National Security Advisor John Bolton, who last month suggested that the approach to North Korea should be the “Libya model of 2003-2004,” President Donald Trump said at a White House meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg today, that the U.S. is not going to repeat the “Libya model” in North Korea.
“The Libya model is not a model that we have at all when we are thinking of North Korea,” the President said, as reported by CBS News. “In Libya, we decimated that country…. If you look at that model with Qaddafi, that was total decimation. We went in there to beat him.”
As for the possibility that North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un might cancel the scheduled June 12 summit in Singapore, Trump said that “nothing has changed on North Korea that we know of.” He further stated that “we’re willing to do a lot. And he’s [Kim Jong-un] willing, I think, to do a lot also. And, I think we’ll actually have a good relationship, assuming we have the meeting and assuming something comes of it, and he’ll get protections that will be very strong.”
The President mentioned that Syria had never had protection. “If you look at Syria, if you look at—or if you look anywhere around the Middle East, Iraq.”
Yesterday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders had distanced the President from Bolton’s earlier remarks on the “Libya model,” saying “there’s not a cookie cutter model on how this would work. This is the President Trump model. He’s going to run this the way he sees fit.”
