EIR is making available, through its online store, Lyndon LaRouche’s 1983, 44-page Special Report, “‘Saudi Arabia in the Year 2023,” with the following description:
“Can a policy written 40 years ago, be so prescient, that it is still as visionary and path-breaking, as well as specific for what might be accomplished today? In ‘Saudi Arabia in the Year 2023,’ written by Lyndon LaRouche in 1983, LaRouche anticipated the mindset of China’s Global Civilization Initiative, as well China’s March 10 successful diplomacy in Southwest Asia, based in a respect for the long arc of civilization, a concept utterly anathema to the mad members of today’s U.S. State Department. LaRouche wrote:
“ ‘In the British view, a nation ought to develop its richest natural resources. In the correct, anti-British view, the people of a nation should base their economic policy, not on the resources they possess, but the resources they most sorely lack. We may develop and market petroleum-assets, of course, but our proper purpose in doing this is to escape from the dangerous trap of remaining forever essentially a petroleum exporter, or specializing in the petrochemical industry.’ ”