LaRouche: State of the Union Address, 2003

- Basis of LaRouche's Foreign Policy -
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- Basis of LaRouche's Foreign Policy -

Now, I have a foreign policy within which I situate what I have to say today. My foreign policy, for our national security, is based on certain principles which I have acquired over the course of my life, from studies and also from deep experience, in Central and South America, in Europe, in parts of Asia, and so forth. It comes from a long period beginning with, essentially, World War II--seeing what the world looked like in Burma and in India, back during those wartime years, which gave me a better view of what the world as a whole looks like. And it still looks like that, pretty much, today.

Right now, around the world, the United States is being held in contempt in most nations and among most people in the world. This contempt has been growing rapidly under the past two years of this administration. There was sympathy for the United States over what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. on Sept. 11, 2001. But the credit, the sympathy accumulated then, is now dissipating, with the economic crisis, and the threatened war in Iraq--the Mideast War--being the principle drain, which is making the United States be viewed increasingly as an object of contempt, not only in what Mr. Rumsfeld calls ``Old Europe,'' but throughout most of the world as a whole. The United States presently is looked at as an imperial power. The nations of the world submit to it, not because they like it, but because they're afraid of it--and they wish it would go away. That's the attitude toward the United States as I know first hand from Europe, from Asia, and elsewhere. The United States is, today, the world's most hated nation. And that is not good for our national security.

But there's another aspect to the United States. We are a unique nation, as I shall indicate at the appropriate point today. We are a historical exception in modern history. We are the first and only true republic conceived in modern history.

Others have tried to imitate us in part, and that's all good. But no nation stands up to the standard of the American exception; the creation of this republic, under the leadership of Benjamin Franklin, and the cooperation, all through that century, of the leading minds and forces of continental Europe--and part of England, and Ireland as well.

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