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The SDI Is Back — if We Make It LaRouche’s SDI, Through New Physical Principles and Cooperation With Russia
19 January 2019
EIRNS—President Trump went to the Pentagon Thursday to announce the release of a new Missile Defense Review, the first since 2010. The report includes expanded sensors and beefed up ground based ABM systems, but the most important step, potentially, was described by Trump in this way: "My upcoming budget will invest in a space-based missile defense layer. It’s a new technology. It’s ultimately going to be a very big part of our defense and, obviously, of our offense. The system will be monitored, and we will terminate any missile launches from hostile powers, or even from powers that make a mistake." He emphasized that the program will be "developing new technology, not just investing more money into existing system." In this regard, the plan would focus on the development of laser beam and particle beam defensive weapons which would, eventually, be space-based systems which could destroy ICBMs in the boost stage. Multiple press accounts note that this part of the plan is a revival of the Ronald Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative, announced on March 23, 1983. What the press accounts leave out is that Lyndon LaRouche had organized the President, and scientific and popular forces around the world, to adopt that policy. The purpose was to end the doomsday policy of the British Empire, known as Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) in favor of Mutual Assured Survival, making it possible for the major powers to cooperate rather than aiming nuclear weapons at each other. As Reagan said, we must "make nuclear weapons obsolete." Crucial to LaRouche’s conception, which Reagan adopted, was that such a system would be based on "new physical principles" — it would be developed jointly by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., and would serve as a "science driver" for all mankind, by pushing forward on the frontiers of human knowledge. LaRouche had carried out a back channel discussion with the Soviets, on behalf of President Reagan, for a year preceding the March 23 announcement. LaRouche wrote in 2000: "Why should the Soviet Union have accepted that proposition, as stated to it, by me, during the period of approximately a year of U.S.-Soviet back-channel discussions, between February 1982 and February 1983? My point was, that on the condition that the United States and others viewed such a process of rendering MAD obsolete, as a science-driver for raising the standard of productivity and physical income in and among the developing nations, through spill-overs of technological by-products, both the U.S. and Soviet economy, among others, would undergo a revolutionary technological up-shift in their internal technological composition of employment, production, and related foreign trade. "In other words, the benefits to the people and economy of the Soviet Union, would include a unique solution for an increasingly deadly internal problem of physical economy which that state was otherwise unlikely to overcome. Peace must always be conceived as of great advantage to each and all among the participating nations. The advantage from the non-military, spill-over features of SDI, as originally proposed, would have been earth-shaking, and would not become available in any other available way." The Soviets failed to accept Reagan’s proposal, as conveyed by LaRouche, and, as LaRouche had warned his Soviet interlocutors would be the case if they turned down the proposed cooperation, the Soviet Union collapsed six years later (LaRouche had forecast five years). But the U.S. also failed to adopt the proposal — rather, it was diluted into a program pouring money into off-the-shelf anti-missile missiles — a boon for the military industrial complex, but lacking the science driver. And, of course, it didn’t work. Now there is a chance for the right approach. But, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche noted today, the war party is still in place, despite Trump’s personal intention to build friendly relations with Russia. She noted the failure of the INF Treaty talks in Geneva on Jan. 15, where the U.S. representative (who had worked for Pence) refused to negotiate, but only handed the Russians an ultimatum with an "or else." Americans, and citizens throughout of the world, must welcome this opportunity to make this revival of the SDI a crucial part of a peace-process, a science-driver, and a new paradigm for mankind. It need not, and must not, be subverted, as the LaRouche/Reagan plan of 1983 was, by the proponents of the British Empire’s permanent division of the world into warring camps. Recall that Trump issued a tweet on Dec. 3: "I am certain that, at some time in the future, President Xi and I, together with President Putin of Russia, will start talking about a meaningful halt to what has become a major and uncontrollable Arms Race." Let us commit to making that a reality. |