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History As Tragedy |
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Hussein Askary's article in Al-Bayan charged that, among Arabs and Muslims, "Those who are peddling the idea of the inevitability of war, the reshaping of the map of the Middle East, and American colonial supremacy in the world are probably pagans, who believe in the arbitrary will of irrational Olympian Gods." The article starts by stating that the "most of the time, history is a tragedy, whose events are unravelling on the scene of real life of societies, almost exactly as we see such events in Aeschylos, Shakespeare, and Schiller's dramas." It states that there are two major factors in history: one is subjective and the other is objective, while Allah is the judge. "About 2,390 years ago, Plato said in the {Timaeus} dialogue, that civilizations in general vanish for two reasons: either through natural disasters, or through human society's own stupidity."
The article reviews the record of human suffering around the world, the mass death in Africa due to preventable diseases, famine, and poverty; mass layoffs and economic and financial disintegration in the industrial nations, which are also solvable. It exposed the nature of the current economic-strategic crisis and warned against the Arab "house slaves who all the time try to tell us how mighty the U.S. economy and globalization are, and that we have to obey the U.S. democratization orders and the military dictators the U.S. war hawks want to install in our countries." This part included an unmistakable attack on the Arab journalists who slandered LaRouche recently. The second part of the article takes up the "solution" to this tragedy. "Nevertheless, I am an optimist, because I believe in the sublime nature of the mission through which man was entrusted by Allah to become His vice-gerent on Earth [Khalifa]," stated Askary. The rest of the article describes the solution to this situation through the ideas of LaRouche and his dual war-avoidance strategy of the New Bretton Woods system and the Eurasian Land-Bridge. -30-
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