A discussion with Donald Trump

In the name of God!

What I would like to say in the context of this brochure titled “A discussion with Donald Trump”:

 

With this brochure, I would like to draw attention to the fact that referendums and the election of personalities in all countries of the world, both in history and modern times, can contribute to solving the existing global problems.

This essay will show that historic personalities had an enormous influence when it came to solving problems in the human societies over the long term and in the history of mankind. I will point out the most threatening factors and, in this context, the fact that we have no time to waste if we want to effectively prevent nuclear wars and destroy all of the existing nuclear weapons as soon as possible. However, as the author of this essay has already mentioned, there are further aspects that are as dangerous as a nuclear war itself: pretexts. If we look back critically, we can say that also the First and the Second World War were triggered by pretexts. Such pretexts are a particular feature of the human soul, which is why the author of this essay refers to nuclear energy in war and the human pretexts – both aspects need to be focused on, both aspects must be analyzed in detail. Furthermore, we also need to examine the function of personalities in history.

Conclusively, the author recommends to immediately arranging for a summit on the destruction of nuclear weapons in war as well as the equality of all nations, being attended by the heads of government world-wide in order to make a most effective start.

Dr. Ali Fasih

December 2016

Translation from the Persian original manuscript: M.H. Fasih

English translation: Andrea Ecker, state-approved translator (member of the Federal Association of Interpreters and Translators / Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Übersetzer, BDÜ, in Germany)

Written and translated by all parties involved without any financial motivation.

 

A DISCUSSION WITH DONALD TRUMP

Brochure No. 2

 

The value of having a goal at all is no less than the value of actually achieving it

 

Foreword

1. Who I am  
2. What I would like to say
3. The presidential elections in the USA
4. Influence of personalities in history         
5. Addressing the interests of people  
6. Nuclear weapons and pretexts
7. Beginning

 

1. Who I am  

Dr. Ali Fasih was born in Amol, Iran, in 1933 and grew up within a religious family.

He visited one of the country’s oldest schools, completing his education with the A Levels in mathematics.

He passed the entrance examination of the police university, achieving his diploma three years later. In the following time, he studied criminology and sociology and graduated with a Master’s in both subjects. Later, he also graduated with a Master’s in history at the Azad University.

As a professor of history, Dr. Fasih also lectured at the Islamic Azad University for a period of four years.

His professional development turned out to be an impressive and extraordinary career. Being a policeman first, he became the leader of the national taxi association; later, he achieved the position as Police Governor of Teheran and leader of the road traffic licensing department. In this function, he was eventually in charge of the entire federal state.

During his fulfilled and varied professional life, Dr. Fasih gained overall respect and appreciation by his straightforward and deeply honest character as well as his profoundly moral way of thinking – both among his neighbors, fellow citizens and high officials.

 

Having finished his successful career, Dr. Fasih turned to his interest in science once again. Upon completion of his studies, he wrote his doctorate thesis on the subject of „Philosophy of History“ and was awarded the title in a ceremony. Among his lecturers were the respected professors Dr. Shabani and Dr. Sharaf.

Dr. Fasih has published two books on his scientific works and theories:

 

 

Philosophy of History

History and Personality – A new universe requires a new philosophy of history

 

 

Today, Dr. Fasih lives in Germany, in close vicinity to his three sons who have established their lives here as well.

 

With the publication of his work, Dr. Fasih would like to show a way to solve the old and new conflicts between nations, cultures and religions. And he would like to offer a perspective for all people to make this modern world a more peaceful and safe place to live.

Humanity and social wellbeing are in the focus of all interest of Dr. Fasih. Contributing to both would be the fulfillment of his professional and mental aspiration.

 

2.What I would like to say

 

The presidential elections in the USA are over and Mr. Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States of America. The arguments which are reviewed in the individual chapters of this brochure are titled “A discussion with Donald Trump”. I have also mentioned that personalities in history and in the human societies had exerted an enormous influence. Everywhere in the world, people followed the presidential elections with great anticipation, asking themselves who would be the next US President. One aspect of this global interest, however, was the question who was going to have the power in future. Because as we all know, the changes initiated by powerful personalities, whether positive or negative, are of great importance to all of us. Therefore, if we are looking at the current problems in the world, we can see that something rewarding and fruitful can grow in this world from the decisions and the initiation of positive decisions. And this is the matter I would like to draw your attention to.

 

I would like to ask any personalities holding an office and leading a people in this position to read this brochure and to initiate better solutions. On the following pages, I will talk about the control of nuclear energy and the restriction of it being used as armament in war. The control and destruction of nuclear armament will bear enormous advantages to the human community. Mr. Trump is now in a position to call for a summit on this particularly important subject – involving the heads of international governments, amazing results could be achieved in such assembly.

 

Why did I choose this subject for my brochure? To my opinion, realizing this historic summit will be of particular importance and it should be arranged for as soon as possible. The leading personalities and heads of government in this world are responsible to react to the interests and needs of people.

All the arguments I have mentioned will contribute to finding an answer to the needs of people. To decide on the control of nuclear armament should be neither difficult nor complicated for each nation in this world.

A friendly assembly with the equality of all nations can be the venue to decide on the restriction and control of nuclear weapons.

 

 

3. Elections in the USA

Donald Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States of America. In my brochure titled „A discussion with Donald Trump“, I also mention that personalities in history had an important influence. All people, both in America and the rest of the world, followed the US elections with great anticipation, but most important was the question who was going to take power in the state. The leaders in the countries of this world have the power to make positive or negative decisions. I would therefore like to recommend you to read my brochure, hoping this might have a positive influence on your work and your decisions.

A world without nuclear armament and the threat of nuclear war is a better world. Mr. Trump can use this profound truth for his work and, in cooperation with other leading personalities in the world, achieve a result we all can benefit from. The global leaders must be able to react to the needs and interests of their people. All around the world, people are discussing about good and bad leaders and they have a justified interest in knowing which persons and which decisions have positive or negative influence on the global development. What can their leaders do for the world? People ask themselves why poverty exists, as they all strive to achieve improvements and to have a better live. This vital need is of particular importance and challenges the leading personalities to find the right answers. The people’s expectations in election campaigns are huge; of the candidates running for office, they expect to present approaches and solutions to the problems in this world which can be put into effect without any delay.

 

 

4. Personalities in history

 

Having a look at our modern world, we can conclude that the leading personalities are represented by positive and negative examples. One society may be governed in a positive way, another one may not. Under a positive leadership, a society can achieve higher values than with a weak government. Therefore, striving for a good work and having a humane way of thinking is of utmost importance for a leading personality. Human history is very complicated, and therefore it is essential to understand it correctly. The way a leading personality thinks has a great impact on his or her role in human history. A positive change to a society is achieved if the peak of its pyramid, i.e. the leadership of the society, consists of the most diligent personalities devoted to the people. We can see from history and from science that Galileo, Newton and Einstein were incomparable with other great scientists and scholars. The matter is that the aforementioned personalities had the ability to rise above themselves and to become outstanding in their achievement to generate new ideas and developments. ¹⁾

The commitment and approaches by public servants and the ability to assume responsibility are of great importance for a positive development within societies. Historical personalities with their spirit and intelligence made such developments possible. However, there is no doubt that also the so-called geniuses had a very important role in human societies. The history of mankind is one the most complicated and complex issues to be discussed and analyzed in our modern world.

 

Various individual tools are required to analyze these procedures. In the course of such analysis, the function of personalities in history is a remarkably important factor, as the developments in society on which they had an influence can be analyzed and traced back today. The specific role of outstanding personalities in the history of mankind does not only result from the biographical background of those persons and characters, but mostly by their decisions and by the changes they initiated – no matter if those took place on the political or cultural level. These aspects are much more important to our assessment than the origin or biography of a person. What does render a virtue to a human society, by the will of God or by reason, is the work of outstanding people in history. Or, to say it with the words of Hegel: men of world history. As examples for the most influential personalities, regardless of their impacts on the world being positive or negative, Cesar, Cromwell, Stalin, Lenin and Napoleon can be cited. They are of such importance for history that we can never neglect them in our examinations and analyses. Such few people are crucial for developments all over the world and for positive and negative changes, that these personalities deserve our particular attention. The ideas, opinions and scholastic statements in the highest political positions can either result in catastrophes – or in better lives for all of us.

William James, an American philosopher, once said: no good in this world could be achieved without the work of a leading persona.

 

 

1. From „Rastakhiz“ (ressurection), edited by Elm & Adab, 1996, page 181

 

 

5. Reaction to the needs and interests of people

All the people in the world paying attention to referendums and elections, expressing their opinion and criticism on political issues, deserve answers to their questions. This also applies to the recent elections in the USA. As I already mentioned, I am not focusing on a single country but on the elected officeholders as well as the current problems in our modern world. What kind of role can the elected personalities play in this respect? When it comes to love for people and humanity, the plights and problems of people are always of binding character and everyone can be affected by those. I would like to quote from a poem of the great Persian poet Saadi to emphasize what I mean:

 

All human beings are members of one frame,
Since all, at first, from the same essence came.
When time afflicts a limb with pain
The other limbs at rest cannot remain.
If thou feel not for other’s misery
A human being is no name for thee

 

Applying this poem by Saadi to the elected leaders of all countries and peoples, in their function of historic and modern personalities, they must be responsible for the interests and needs of people.

The backwardness of some peoples or human societies, poverty and illness in some countries in contrast to the wealth and properties of others, immigration and refuge, poor people seeking asylum make our world an insecure place and give us reason to worry. The elected leaders must be responsible to resolve these problems. They need to demonstrate what they have endeavored. In some parts of the world, people enjoy the privilege of a surplus of wealth and goods, while major problems and poverty prevail in other parts.

 

The elected officeholders shall assume responsibility to tackle these problems. In human history, some personalities did so without caring about their own life, they attached more importance to altruism than to themselves. All the people that voted in the elections know exactly that solving problems in the human societies and the organization of justice are anything but simple. What we need are personalities and leaders who are willing to deal with the issues and complications of societies in a selfless way.

With regard to problems triggered by dangerous armament in war, the elected leaders need to take particular care of developments. This is the only way to find answers for all the people who shout out their anger in demonstrations and protests. The restlessness of our modern world comes from the inside, and the most effective way to calm it down is to elect personalities that will tackle poverty by applying justice and integrity as well as implementing control of armament in war. The elected leaders bearing love for the people can achieve great effects by raising their voice and by untiring commitment. These attributes will help them to find an answer to the interests and needs of people and to tackle the existing problems in the world. Historical and social events have proven that personalities in history and the leaders of human societies can assume a very important role. This role is perceptible.

 

 

6. Nuclear weapons

 

With computers being the most important achievement of mankind, having influenced all fields of science, nuclear weapons and the concerns about nuclear energy being used in war are the greatest fear of people. We cannot wait. We must not take these concerns easy, wasting our time. Nuclear weapons or the use nuclear power in war, respectively, is the subject of this chapter in my theory.

The two aspects being focused on in the following are:

 

1. Nuclear armament
2. Pretexts

 

1. Nuclear armament

It is known that the nuclear bombs hitting the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II destroyed the landscape and all existing life in a radius of several miles.

Every year, some 600bn dollars are spent on the nations’ competition in armament world-wide. Basically, the generations of mankind are threatened by three bombs:  One is the great gap between poor and wealthy nations, the second bomb is the impending population explosion and the third one is the pollution of our environment. Despite these „bombs“, we will certainly continue to exist. A nuclear bomb, however, can destroy the entire civilization within just a short period of time.

Even if we do not base our assumptions on a nuclear war, it is for sure that none of the three “bombs” I described above can be removed without a full destruction of all nuclear weapons. The mentioned spending of 600bn dollars per year could be used to change the world geographically. Hunger, illness, illiteracy could be combated at the roots; shortage of living space, water and electricity suffered by the people in particularly underdeveloped countries of the world such as Latin America, Africa and Asia could be drastically reduced.

 

2. Pretexts

Besides nuclear weapons, I am focusing on pretexts as the most dangerous fuel for conflict. If both are in an uncontrolled state, one is more threatening than the other. These scaring pretexts are just ideas in the minds of people, and they can be the foundation of a beginning world war. Such pretexts already triggered the First and the Second World War, and unfortunately they are still perceptible. To provide a better comprehension for the way the term can be interpreted in this context, I would like to explain how it is used in my Persian mother language. In a literal translation, we would say that a pretext is being „carved“, meaning that people are creating their pretexts, giving them a particular form in order to make them credible as a justification for their actions and decisions.

In the human minds, these words are in motion. The great Persian poet Maulana Rumi said: Mankind is the result of coincidence and was equally created by angels and beasts. Another poem by Maulana Rumi says that God had created three different kinds of human beings. One group was assigned reason and knowledge – these are the angels, devoted to nothing else but prayers.

The second group is without knowledge, comparable to animals on a pasture doing nothing else but sleeping and eating, living sluggishly in their flock.

The third group is the true human being, half angel and half sheep. We will have to wait and see which part of them will prevail.

While the first two groups are always unaffected by wars, the real human being is caught in a steady conflict between these rivals.     

In 6,000 years of human history and countless wars, there was always one person responsible for the beginning of a major war. The arguments and attributes of such personalities can be found in the poems of Maulana Rumi. If the presence of those persons striving for war and the meaning of Maulana Rumi’s poems are equally considered, the likeliness of a nuclear war in the modern world is scaring. Scaring!

 

7. Beginning

Mr. Trump, this brochure was titled „A discussion with President Donald Trump”. The election campaign the USA is over, you were elected the 45^th President of the United States of America. Your first term of four years will pass by in a moment. The methods and the system which you will apply to solve the problems in this world will remain in the memory of history. Nuclear armament is the most important, most complicated and most difficult issue of our modern time. This discussion needs to be considered as a parallel work to everything that was already published against nuclear power by various authors, scientists and researchers. This is why this discussion is so important. All the wars that mankind has experienced so far, in particular the First and the Second World War, were triggered by the minor pretexts of a few men. These pretexts are still existent because they live on in the people’s minds. I have already mentioned the different groups of human beings described by the great poet Maulana Rumi. Our discussion must therefore focus on the problem of nuclear weapons in the hands of some few persons. Please come and start this discussion in order to destroy these dangerous weapons once and for all! This mission involving all heads of government on equal terms would be a wonderful beginning and it could be a great honor for you to call for unprecedented assembly in the initial period of your presidency. If the participants could achieve an agreement that nuclear weapons will be destroyed in each country called a „nuclear power”, you will be able to assume an outstanding role in your presidency and go down in history in the most remarkable, positive way.

 

If you declare it your aim to initiate a summit striving to destroy nuclear weapons all over the world, we will witness fantastic results. Not a single nation will oppose this target, all of them will agree to take part.

If you invite the people, everyone would join this mission with the greatest commitment. Everyone would support you with the implementation and join forces, because this subject is of such enormous importance.

Initiating this discussion will be a major benefit for many countries, also in an economic point of view, as the current spending on competitive nuclear armament could be saved and used for other purposes.

President Trump, by starting this discussion your name will forever remain in history and you will be remembered as a great and positive leader

Upon this beginning, we will all witness major financial relieves for the nations and the face of our modern world will change. I do hope very much that this philanthropic brochure will not be used as “scrap paper” or thrown away. I would also like to inform you that my first brochure which is titled „A discussionwith the United Nations“ is dealing with my conclusion that the UN Charter is lacking scientific reason and that this non-functional Charter has entailed major damages to the world’s population. This first brochure was published in the internet. I really hope that the leading personalities in the USA will be willing to read my work – I regret not to have received any reaction to my theory so far, which is certainly beneficial and positive for all people in this world. I have also mentioned that initiating the discussion on nuclear weapons might have an immensely positive influence on your presidency as the destruction of nuclear weapons in all countries of this world is a joint target and major achievement for all of us.

 

 

Dr. Ali Fasih

 

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