If that is the case, whats the danger the world faces, in light of the possibility that Bush might order an attack against Iraq?
LaRouche: Well, this is now being contested. There’s much more resistance to this now than there was, say, two weeks ago, and there is pressure inside the Bush administration to reconsider, as there is from Europe. Q: If the world were to continue on this track, what is the likelihood of the world exploding economically? LaRouche: More than that, it would explode if it were to continue on this track. Let me define what the solution is, because that makes the crisis more clear. To understand the present world situation, you have to look back to the middle decades of the 14th Century in Europe, when the Lombard banking system collapsed. At that time, the Lombard bankers were able to enforce the collection of debts. As a result, they had a dark age in which the population of Europe collapsed by at least one-third. If the IMF conditions are not overturned now, a similar fate to that of the “little dark age” of the 14th Century will hit most of the world as a whole. Therefore, the key today
