{"id":76683,"date":"2021-07-12T11:32:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T15:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=76683"},"modified":"2021-07-12T11:39:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T15:39:04","slug":"zepp-larouche-on-afghanistan-the-new-name-for-peace-is-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/blog\/2021\/07\/12\/zepp-larouche-on-afghanistan-the-new-name-for-peace-is-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Zepp-LaRouche on Afghanistan: \u2018The New Name for Peace Is Development\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dramatic developments are taking place over the past days which make clear that the world is sitting at a crossroads. Two clearly distinct ideas about the nature of man are contending for the future of human civilization. One, which could well lead to the destruction of civilization itself in a nuclear holocaust, sides with the Aristotelian outlook of the British Empire, that some people are born to rule and others to serve, that human beings are as defined by Thomas Hobbes, as \u201call against all,\u201d with nations following the same logic, locked into geopolitical laws of zero-sum \u201csurvival of the fittest.\u201d The other view believes that: \u201cDevelopment holds the key to the people\u2019s well-being, [and] no country should be left behind. All nations are equally entitled to development opportunities and rights to development.\u201d While it would be understandable that one may think this statement came from Franklin D. Roosevelt as he planned his postwar vision for the role of a United Nations, it is in fact the words of Xi Jinping, speaking on July 6 to delegates of 500 parties and institutions from around the world, representing 160 countries, fully three-fourths of the human race, joining in support of the principle of \u201cPeace Through Development,\u201d as intended by China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, the Schiller Institute\u2019s founder and president Helga Zepp-LaRouche released a statement titled: \u201cAfghanistan at a Crossroads: Graveyard for Empires or Start of a New Era?<\/a>\u201d She posits that the policies taken by the world\u2019s nations today on the future of Afghanistan not only affects every citizen of every country, in the sense that the danger of terrorism and drug proliferation affect us all, but also because it could well determine the fate of mankind itself. The only solution to the Afghanistan quagmire, she writes, is for the great nations of the world, and all the nations of the region, to join forces in a \u201cGreat Project\u201d to develop Afghanistan as the hub for the New Silk Road, both East-West development corridors connecting East Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, Eastern Europe and Western Europe, and North-South development corridors linking Russia, China, Iran, India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it possible? Or is it, as seen by the geopoliticians of the British Empire, contrary to their warped sense of \u201chuman nature,\u201d which will always seek out an advantage against \u201cthe other\u201d? Will Americans follow this British prescription for imperial \u201cdivide and rule,\u201d or will they recall the spirit of the U.S. Declaration of Independence: \u201cWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.\u201d Was this intended only for those who follow so-called \u201cWestern values,\u201d and who follow the so-called \u201crules-based order,\u201d or is it indeed intended for all mankind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dramatic developments are taking place over the past days which make clear that the world is sitting at a crossroads. Two clearly distinct ideas about the nature of man are contending for the future of human civilization. One, which could well lead to the destruction of civilization itself in a nuclear holocaust, sides with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":73983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,66,505,508,639,33],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-76683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-color-revolutions","category-allgemein-fa","category-updates","category-updates-geopolitics","category-global-diplomacy","category-updates-war","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76683"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76703,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76683\/revisions\/76703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}