On August 31, Joe Biden emerged for his latest struggle with an apparently hostile teleprompter and scolded the nation. He angrily asserted that his withdrawal from Afghanistan was a smashing success and should not be criticized. Any fault rested with others. He implied, for example, that Americans left behind must have neglected the heroic social media outreach of his State Department. He didn’t mention that getting out meant crossing checkpoints manned by the terrorist Taliban based on agreements his military made.

Since August 15, as the debacle and American humiliation in Afghanistan unfolded for the entire world to see, the airwaves and Internet have been filled with reports and commentary detailing with great precision the complete incompetence of the Biden collective’s withdrawal. Now, 13 American soldiers have been killed, 18 other soldiers have been maimed, 95 Afghan civilians have been killed, and many more have been maimed in a “complex” terrorist attack at Kabul’s airport. It involved two suicide bombs and accompanying terrorist rifle fire. The dead and the maimed were totally set up by Joe Biden and his “expert” foreign policy and defense team.

For the past week, I have been a captive of my television set and the internet as the public humiliation of the United States of America, apparently by the hand of our current government, plays out in Kabul, Afghanistan on the eve of the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001. It is unclear at present whether rescuing the thousands of hostages created by Joe Biden’s deliberately incompetent withdrawal will result in new wars in Afghanistan or greater Eurasia.

President Trump appeared on Sean Hannity’s show Tuesday night.  While billed as a defense against the ludicrous charge by the incompetent and listing Biden collective that the present debacle in Afghanistan was caused by Trump, President Trump went “off script” in the words of London’s Independent.

As was discussed in the first class in this series, Plato and the 2500-Year-Old Republican Party, the Persian Empire could not defeat Athens by military means. It corrupted the thinking of Athenian leaders and citizens alike, causing Athens to self-destruct.

This article is reprinted from the Winter 2003 issue of FIDELIO Magazine. Plato's dialogues encompass an historical sweep of time, from Athens at its height in 450 B.C. to its defeat in the Peloponnesian War, to the death of Socrates in 399 B.C. and beyond. That more than half-century witnessed the self-destruction of Athens, as its imperial ambitions brought it into conflict with its neighboring city-states, especially Sparta, thus precipitating the Peloponnesian war in 432. A series of disasterous decisions led to Athens' ultimate defeat in 404.

In a pamphlet written for his 1980 campaign, “Creating a Republican Labor Party,” Lyndon LaRouche delineated the nature of citizenship in a republic. Despite the claims of the current White House, that we are a democracy, our founders found that idea repellant.

We find LaRouche’s definition very timely for today:

Maybe one of the reasons Critical Race Theory has any resonance at all among young people, is because idiots portray defenders of slavery, usury, and colonialism as our intellectual fathers. 

Propaganda about present events is everywhere, as our imperial enemy seeks to profile us into 'pick your box' of controlled and ultimately impotent ideologies. But, among the forces of resistance to the the destruction of the United States, just about everything depends on accurately portraying our opponent, understanding its future moves and potentials for change, and destroying its destructive abilities. Like the shadows in Plato's cave the propagandists seek to lure us far away from the mind's actual potentials. Lyndon LaRouche described a fourth domain which fulfills our requirement for the mindset necessary to defeat those who would destroy us.