Join us live on Saturday at 2pm EDT. Now that the United States has irrevocably committed to withdrawing its military from Afghanistan, finally recognizing the intrinsic failure of the use of military force of any magnitude to address that circumstance, is the trans-Atlantic world ready to change its axioms?

For example: Would a president Martin Luther King have successfully applied the physical-economic principle of nonviolent direct action to American foreign policy? Stated differently, what is the relationship between the capital-intensive physical economic development of a nation, the rapid mastery of mining, manufacturing, agricultural, construction and transportation skills by that nation’s workforce, and competent military strategy?

Lyndon LaRouche campaigned for the United States Presidency multiple times, not only because he understood that relationship. LaRouche also understood that the American Presidency was invented by Washington, Hamilton and Franklin to establish the primacy of that relationship to physical economic production, rather than slavery, as the basis for self-government. President Barack Obama‘s sophistical “Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech”featured a blasphemous attack on King in order to justify the “Afghanistan surge policy” of 2009 now admitted to be a failure by then-Joint Chiefs of Staff head Admiral Mike Mullen. It also provided a textbook example of the failure to grasp, either the strategic significance, or the moral imperative of the principle of economic progress as the preferred mode of nonviolent direct action for progress, both within and among nations, embedded in the very establishment of the Office of the Presidency by Revolutionary War veterans and commanders George Washington and Alexander Hamilton.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in her proposed “Coincidence of Opposites” approach to the positive resolution of the Afghanistan conflict, has called upon the United States to resurrect the Classical idea of the American Presidency as a sovereign interlocutor in foreign policy, separate and independent from British Colonial Office influence. An American Presidential response to Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Iran and the other nations surrounding Afghanistan, taking the occasion of the present world medical crisis as a jumping off point, should reassert the productive power of the United States, rather than resort any longer to war, as Hamilton and Washington, in particular, would have advised.