The late Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and self-declared nemesis of Lyndon LaRouche, is reported to have once said, “I never mix morality with politics.” Wherever he is right now, he is experiencing the painful result of his outlook. Mankind should not be forced to suffer the same fate, which at the moment appears to be a real possibility, because the American political class and the American people chose to go along, to get along with this “pragmatic” approach to policy.
In the International Peace Coalition meeting of April 17, Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche also touched on this question of morality. She contrasted the hedonism of the Epstein class to the leadership being provided by Pope Leo XIV in what has become an open brawl with the President of the United States; not because the Pope wished for it, but because U.S. President Donald Trump, like Mozart’s Don Giovanni, is mocking the Creator of the universe.
Zepp-LaRouche expressed her doubt that the U.S.-Israel war against Iran had actually ended, despite the series of manic and delusional social media posts issued by President Trump starting early Friday morning (April 17), possibly as a stunt to goose the markets, which rose dramatically as the price of oil fell. After the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire (which President Trump took credit for organizing, but which Iranians believe occurred because the IDF was overextended and Iran had threatened a major retaliatory attack on Israel), Iran’s foreign minister announced the opening of the Strait of Hormuz. Donald Trump not only said the Strait is open but that the Strait of Hormuz will never be a cause of conflict again. He also said that Israel will not bomb Lebanon again, because he told them, “enough!”
Since the United States continues to move more military equipment and troops into the region, it is expected by many analysts and likely the Iranian military as well, that, as during all previous ceasefire agreements, the United States will resume bombing sometime in the next few days, perhaps even before the official ceasefire ends on Tuesday night, April 21.
However, the opposition in the United States is growing, and it is up to the participants in the International Peace Coalition and readers of EIR to continue to press the U.S. Congress. The vote against the War Powers Resolution this week was only one vote shy of actually passing, and 40 Democrats in the U.S. Senate have now voted against sending tractors to Israel.
In New Jersey, Analilia Mejia won the congressional seat recently vacated by newly elected New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, despite massive AIPAC funding of her opponent. In Maine, a longstanding Republican Senator Susan Collins stated that she would consider supporting the War Powers Resolution if the Israel-U.S. war against Iran goes longer than 60 days, which will happen ten days from now. She is feeling the pressure from a popular challenger, Graham Plattner, who is a military veteran and oyster farmer running for her seat in the midterm elections.
LaRouche-associated candidates for President and Congress, Diane Sare and Jose Vega, are organizing a growing movement of independent candidates who can exert pressure on incumbent congress members to do their job and uphold the Constitution, particularly the power of the purse, to cut the funding for illegal wars of aggression.
The campaign to restore morality to policy and establish peace on Earth has been joined by four powerful voices from a much higher perspective. That is, the voices of the astronauts who just returned from the NASA mission Artemis II, which put human beings into lunar orbit for the first time in more than 50 years.
When interviewed by the press about the breakthrough that they made in orbiting the Moon and traveling the greatest distance from Earth by any human being so far, each of them in their own way stressed that it was not their breakthrough but the breakthrough of mankind as a whole. They also thanked all of those producers from many different nations, who produced components of the rocket and capsule and contributed to the success of this mission.
Christina Koch talked about what it was like to be “crew” inside the tiny Orion capsule and the “silent sacrifices” that she observed each of them making for the other at key moments in the voyage. They shared a strong dedication to a common mission, as well as a common risk. She reported that all of humankind must come to see itself as “crew” of planet Earth.
In the great scheme of human existence, we should all understand that our future is inextricably linked to the future of the least of every other one of us, and act accordingly. That is the substance of the morality that Mr. Kissinger rejected.
