Megan Dobrodt - The evacuation of Boston: The greatest empire was driven out of Boston by a weaker force, and demonstration that it is principle, and not force, that ultimately governs human events. Painting by William James Aylward
On March 17, 1776, 120 British ships carrying 11,000 troops and
many loyalists besides, evacuated Boston Harbor after an eleven-month
siege, under the steady gaze of the heavy cannons installed by General
Washington and Henry Knox on Dorchester Heights. The mightiest empire on
the planet had been driven out of Boston by the seemingly weaker forces
of the American Continental Army, a demonstration that it is principle,
and not force, that ultimately governs human events.
It is urgent
that the spirit of that first Evacuation Day, the sense of victory over
colonialism, be restored in the United States—as it is actively taking
root in nations of the Global South—before the U.S., and thus the world,
finds itself lurching into nuclear World War III.
The sense of
both concern and outrage around the illegal U.S.-Israeli war against
Iran is growing both inside the United States and out. Over the past few
days, voices from inside the Catholic Church in Europe and the U.S. have echoed
Pope Leo XIV in denouncing the illegal and brutal nature of the war.
Within the Trump administration itself, the façade is beginning to
crumble. On Tuesday, Joe Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism
Center, resigned, stating in his letter to President Trump,
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran
posed no imminent threat to our nation…. Until June 2025, you understood
that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the
precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity
of our nation…. I cannot support sending the next generation off to
fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor
justifies the cost of American lives.”
The hysteria in response
to Kent’s resignation is telling. Trump, flailing about in answers to
the press, remarked, “When I read his statement I realized, it’s a good
thing that he’s out, because he said ‘Iran is not a threat’.... [W]hen
somebody is working with us that says they didn’t think Iran was a
threat, we don’t want those people.” Truth, and the U.S. intelligence
community’s own assessment, be damned. Others, from White House Press
Secretary Karoline Leavitt to members of Congress, both Democrats and
Republicans, tripped over themselves to denounce Kent’s action.
Panic
from the war party—and the Epstein class from which it comes—is only
increasing as the U.S. finds itself more and more isolated. Trump’s
insistence that other nations help to secure the Strait of Hormuz by
sending military escorts for commercial ships has met with a resounding and nearly unanimous statement
from all quarters of the world: “This is not our war.” Iran has also
made clear that it is not interested in further negotiations with the
U.S., nor a temporary ceasefire. “We will end this war when we guarantee
that it will not be repeated, and that requires a decisive and final
conclusion to the war,” warned Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on March 15.
Turn to an important op-ed in Global Times
published March 17, which focuses on how China contributes to global
peace and stability. “China does not export crises, shift
contradictions, or rely on aggressive tactics to compete for interests,”
the op-ed states. “Instead, it focuses on stabilizing its own path and
managing its own affairs well, providing the world with more certainty,
more opportunities, and more confidence.” Ironically, the foreign policy
described, whose premise is confidence in its own domestic development,
was once the proudest policy of the United States when it went “not
abroad in search of monsters to destroy,” but instead offered a “beacon
of liberty” to inspire the world by its own harmonious development, as
President and patriot John Quincy Adams so beautifully championed.
The
approach of putting the development of all mankind first and locating
the role of the nation in advancing that within that top-down context is
the mode of conduct which, because it is coherent with natural law,
must govern the next phase of human development. This is the basis on
which Helga Zepp-LaRouche has issued an urgent and repeated call
for nations to convene for the establishment of a new security and
development architecture to replace the collapsing system of
geopolitics, and has also called on citizens around the world to take
the responsibility to move such a conference onto the agenda.
In
the United States, independent candidate for President Diane Sare, along
with Congressional candidate Jose Vega and many others, are stepping up
to take up the leadership needed to restore the United States’ true,
anti-colonial mission. In a statement,
“Is the Epstein Class Planning a New 9/11 To Justify Dropping a Nuclear
Bomb?” Sare writes, “We find it tragic that in 2026, when our nation
should be celebrating the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of
Independence from the British Empire, we are instead threatening to
bring on nuclear Armageddon and the end of civilization in the spirit of
that very British Empire from which we intended to liberate the world.”
Her statement is currently gathering endorsements from candidates
around the nation, and Sare and others will hold a press conference on Wednesday, March 18, to call on more U.S. whistleblowers to step forward.
As
was proven on March 17, 1776 and as is being proven by the burgeoning,
new, post-colonial paradigm now taking hold around the world, it is the
“weak force” of principle that holds power in the universe, not the
pyrrhic might of the stronger. Step up now and act in that spirit and we
just may ensure the permanent evacuation of empire from the stage of
human history.