LaRouche Interviewed in Pole Star on U.S. Elections

From Volume 3, Issue Number 27 of Electronic Intelligence Weekly, Published July 6, 2004

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LaRouche Interviewed in Pole Star on U.S. Elections

The Russian Internet publication Polyarnaya Zvezda (The Pole Star), in late June, posted Lyndon LaRouche's replies to a set of questions about the U.S. elections. The publication is posting the replies of various experts, including, so far, one from the New York Council on Foreign Relations. LaRouche was identified as candidate for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination. The Yekaterinburg-based Polyarnaya Zvezda project is known for its focus on Eurasian matters and is relatively widely read in Russia.

The following is the English version of the questions, together with LaRouche's original replies, dated May 17, 2004.

Question 1. Describe the mood of the American society on the eve of Presidential election. How polarized is the American nation in political context? Do third parties have any chance to influence the outcome of the election? Which of these third parties elicit maximum support from the American public?

LaRouche: The principal underlying, determining factors in the U.S.A.'s policy-shaping, will be, increasingly, the interrelationship between the continuing escalation of asymmetric warfare in Southwest Asia, and the impact on the U.S.A. itself of the presently inevitable, onrushing breakdown-crisis of the present world monetary-financial system. The shifts in mood within the U.S.A. are currently kaleidoscopic, rather than linear statistical trends, on both accounts. The fate of the U.S.A., and also the world at large, will be largely determined by U.S. response to these two factors, including the impact of the war on the efforts to deal with the presently accelerating crisis of the monetary-financial system. Unless the U.S. is free of its presently, ruinous policies in Southwest Asia, there is no possibility of U.S.-proposed solution for the monetary-financial crisis presently in sight. Even were the U.S. to pull out of the war, unless the current economic doctrines of all leading U.S. parties, major or minor, are overturned, the worst monetary-financial-economic collapse in modern history is virtually inevitable for the planet at large. If Sen. John Kerry continues to be the intellectual-political failure he has shown himself to be since the aftermath of his initial electoral-primary victory in the Federal state of New Hampshire, and in light of the pathetic conduct of President George W. Bush, two things must be said about the November 2004 Presidential election: that Kerry's performance, so far, has been so pathetically impotent, that only his continuation of his present pattern of behavior might re-elect an otherwise pitiful Bush. Under such conditions, a vote in the order of 5% for "spoiler" candidate Ralph Nader, could contribute to Kerry's defeat, as Gore was defeated in Florida, in 2000.

Question 2. What are the main achievements of the Bush administration? Has the current president been more successful in foreign or domestic policy? Will this help him in his reelection effort?

LaRouche: Except for the sympathy he attracted, during a relatively short time after the events of Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush has had no notable political successes so far. Since that time he has been visibly a mere puppet of his ventriloquist, Vice President Dick Cheney, and, therefore, of Cheney's pack of maddened chicken-hawk warriors. The Iraq war and the onrushing collapse of the U.S. economy will probably continue to hang around his neck as long as he continues to tolerate Cheney as both his personal ventriloquist and Vice President.

Question 3: a.) What mistakes in foreign and domestic policy were made during George W. Bush's first term? b.) Will the administration take these failures into consideration during the second term if president Bush wins reelection in November? c.) What is the current trend US-EU relations in light of recent loss of America's allies in the Iraq war (Spain, for example)?

LaRouche: a.) In fact, Bush has made nothing but mistakes in all crucial issues, especially since the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001. b.) If Bush were to conduct a thorough purge of Cheney and the neo-conservative pack from his administration, he might revert, then, to the political style of his preceding Texas Governership, and accept more guidance from the senior circles associated with his father, President George H.W. Bush. Unfortunately, that change might come too late for him, under the present strategic trends. b.) If he remains under the control of Cheney et al., the U.S. will follow a re-election of Bush with an unleashing of the Cheney doctrine of "preventive nuclear warfare" to targets such as Syria, Iran, North Korea, and others. c.) The Cheney-Blair policy remains one of Anglo-American one-world, nuclear power over an increasingly terrorized, and globalized planet.

Question 4. If George W. Bush receives steady support from representatives of big business and the elite of the military-industrial complex, then which forces provide support for the Democratic Party and its Presidential nominee?

LaRouche: The term "military-industrial complex," as employed by President Dwight Eisenhower, refers, still today, as then, to the financier-directed Synarchist International which established each and all of the fascist regimes installed throughout continental Europe during the 1922-1945 interval. At the close of that war, Allen Dulles and others, together with the same pro-Synarchist financier circles which had backed London's Montagu Norman and his assets Hjalmar Schacht and Averill Harriman, in putting Hitler into power on Jan. 30, 1933, brought a core of the Nazi-SS-SD apparatus into what became the post-war NATO apparatus, an apparatus based on the original, Truman version of the "preventive nuclear warfare" doctrine introduced by Bertrand Russell. For example, immediately following the death of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, Dulles and his aide James J. Angleton moved into control of the occupation of Italy, incorporating such Nazi elements and assets of the Nazi occupation of Italy as SS General Wolf's crowd: a key part of the present generation of international Synarchist terrorism run from within Italy, France, and Spain, into South and Central America today. It would be a mistake to introduce the category "big business," as implying large industrial interests, to the situation in the post-industrial culture of the U.S, and western Europe today. Behind the apparatus whose policy is the doctrine of "universal fascism" (as of Michael Ledeen, et al.), is the same genre of international financier-cartel interests which were the power behind the Synarchist International of 1922-1945.

Question 5. Will U.S. foreign policy undergo changes in the event of the election of Democratic challenger John Kerry to the White House? Will the U.S. attitude towards Russia and the European Union change if Kerry wins the November elections?

LaRouche: So far, Senator Kerry's candidacy has been a disaster. He is floundering, without any clear policy-direction, on all important issues of national policy. He evidently lacks any of the qualities of leadership required of the U.S. President under today's accelerating onrush of conditions of general global monetary-financial collapse, conditions under which the U.S. must play a crucial kind of leading constructive role.

Question 6. Will the war on terrorism intensify if the Democrats take the White House in November or will John Kerry prefer to focus on domestic problems? Will he attempt to strengthen NATO as the only global military organization capable of mounting rapid reaction operations? Will the expansion of NATO eastward continue?

LaRouche: Unless Kerry accepted my direction, he would flounder hopelessly as President, on all fronts. Otherwise, it is clearly the present direction of intent of the controlling interests presently behind the NATO-dominated European Union, to transform the former Comecon region of Europe into the looted equivalent, for Europe, of what the U.S. has been doing, since 1982, to transform these the formerly sovereign nations of Central and South America into the virtual slave-labor markets and raw-material-looting zone for the otherwise currently bankrupt core of NATO states.

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