Establishment Figures Warn of Thermonuclear World War!

• Establishment Figures Warn of Thermonuclear War! 
  by http://larouchepac.com/ 
  Oxford historian Margaret MacMillan is working with establishment insiders at the Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution and others, to warn of an imminent castrophic world war on the World War I model, which in today’s circumstances would mean thermonuclear world annihilation, even if they don’t stress that point.
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  MacMillan, author of the recent The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, was hosted Nov. 7 by the Brookings Institution for a seminar titled “Lessons from World War I: Is Today’s China the Germany of 1914?  Where is the Next Global Flashpoint?”  She adapted an essay she wrote for Brookings into a New York Times op-ed of Dec. 13, “The Great War’s Ominous Echoes.”
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  After invoking the sheer scale of World War I’s carnage, one of the most destructive wars in European history, MacMillan says “the approaching centenary should make us reflect anew on our vulnerability to human error, sudden catastrophes, and sheer accident.”
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  One of the “ominous echoes” is that most pre-1914 leaders had no notion of what the actual form of most World War I battles would be: a stalemate of trench warfare.  One equivalent today, is the error of believing that “surgical strikes” or “shock and awe” tactics can engineer a decisive victory in what is erroneously forecast as a “short and limited conflict.”  But none of these supposed “short and limited conflicts” has ended.
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  For those who believe that the close trade ties between the U.S. and China will prevent war, she reminds them that pre-World War I Britain and Germany were each the biggest trade partner of the other.
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  “Before 1914, the great power talked of their honor.  Today, Secretary of State John Kerry refers to America’s credibility or prestige.  It amounts to much the same thing.”
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  She cites the great, assassinated pre-war French leader Jean Jaures saying that Europe had come so close to all-out war so many times in the Balkans, that people delude themselves it will never happen.  The Middle East is the Balkans of today, MacMillan writes, echoing Lyndon LaRouche.
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  With great leaders like Bismarck (or Churchill, she writes) World War I might have been avoided.  Obama, on the other hand, is another Woodrow Wilson.  “Now is the time to think again about those dreadful lessons of a century ago.”
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  At its best, MacMillan’s analysis is admittedly badly muddled.  She overlooks the intent for war from Queen Elizabeth II, the Empress of the Anglo-Dutch empire.  She overlooks the existence of the empire, the collapse into rubble of the trans-Atlantic system, and Eurasia’s contrasting, continuing progress, at least for now.  But by her catching and portraying some other aspects of the crisis, and rightly equating them to World War I, she will encourage some readers to pursue the question further and dig out the truth.
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  In discussion with associates on Saturday, Lyndon LaRouche, who, three years ago, began warning of the threat of thermonuclear world war, had the following remarks on the threat of general warfare:
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