The New 'Crusades'

[zengrifter]

This article appears in the March 17, 2006 issue of
Executive Intelligence Review.

AN EIR STRATEGIC STUDY
Blair and U.S. Accomplices Push Anti-Islam Crusade

by Jeffrey Steinberg

On March 6, Lyndon LaRouche addressed a private gathering of prominent local figures in Berlin, Germany [see transcript of his opening remarks]. The subject of his remarks was the so-called "Iran crisis." After reviewing the actual strategic crisis, posed by the intersection of the Anglo-American drive to provoke a needless military confrontation with Iran—to trigger an all-out war against the entire Islamic world, and the end-phase breakdown of the post-Bretton Woods "globalized" floating-exchange-rate speculative financial system—LaRouche concluded on a note of great optimism, that challenged his immediate audience and reverberated overnight in policymaking circles around the world:

"So, finally, one thing to consider: Here we have a great threat to humanity, a great threat represented by the policies of Cheney, Jack Straw in London, and so forth. How should we deal with this? The problem is that we find that our politicians are impotent—and I deal with politicians in the United States, I can tell you about their impotence. And many of them are my best friends! So, how do you get politicians, who behave with impotence, to suddenly find the strengths within themselves, to make the strategic decisions on which great endeavors of this type depend? Because, if you can, if you can mobilize the political forces, and mobilize the people around such political leaders, for these kinds of projects, they will not tolerate something like this threat to Iran, right now! They will not tolerate this threat to humanity. It's because people have become sophists: They sit back and say, 'You've got to go along, and put up with this. You've got to accept this.' Because they have no confidence, no courage. And they have no confidence and no courage, because they have no perspective, and they do not understand the efficiency of love for mankind as the greatest political force in world history, for the greatest things.

"You fight Cheney by mobilizing people around objectives, which mobilize people with an idea of the beauty of the future before us. In that case, they find the courage to fight, just like the person who fights in warfare to save their nation. They fight, and risk their lives, for the future of humanity. They fight because they want to do something good with their lives: Give them something good. Give them some care for other people. Give them care for strangers in different countries. And they will rise with courage to deal with these kinds of problems."

This Strategic Study

LaRouche's remarks in Berlin, which followed, by several days, an even more exhaustive exchange with an international audience at a day-long Berlin seminar hosted by EIR, form the core of the strategic study that follows. In a series of policy memos drafted in the past days, supplementing his remarks at the two Berlin events, LaRouche underscored that there is no "Iran crisis" per se. There is an "Iran incident," provoked by the British government of Tony Blair and his Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, and greatly abetted by the Washington, D.C. Bush Administration circles of Vice President Dick Cheney, Acting United Nations Ambassador John Bolton, and others, with the aim of provoking the Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington-labeled "Clash of Civilizations," modeled precisely on the medieval Crusades against Islam, that sank European civilization into an extended Dark Age of disease, famine, and perpetual war.

LaRouche warned, in no uncertain terms, that any military action against Iran, ostensibly triggered by Iran's efforts to acquire a nuclear weapons capability that is years off into the future, would unleash a global form of asymmetric warfare, which would be impossible to contain once it erupted. This fact is known to the financier circles behind Blair, Straw, and Cheney. Their goal is nothing less than instigating just such a global Hobbesian conflict, to wipe out the last vestiges of sovereign nation-states from the planet, and impose the ultimate "globalization" dictatorship by a private oligarchy of "property holders" of the strategic raw material and agro-industrial wealth of the planet.

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