TRIBUNE-It is said that before entering the sea, a river trembles with fear. It looks back at the road it has traveled, from mountain peaks, the long winding road through forests and villages. And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast that to enter it seems nothing short of disappearing forever. But there’s no other way.
The river can’t go back. Nobody can go back. To go back is impossible in existence. The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean, because only then will fear disappear, because only then will the river know that it’s not a question of disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.
Today, many Congolese are afraid of the future. They’ve been portrayed as having such a catastrophic future that they feel they must remain “neutral” to survive the arrival of the rebels. So, they refuse to fight, they want to preserve their comfort by anticipating and submitting to the enemy, they confuse wisdom with the malignity of cowards who pretend to die at the front to preserve their lives. It is not possible to live with such an attitude, for man is first and foremost the expression of his sense of duty.
Let the Congolese develop the art of looking beyond the next battle and calculating further ahead. Let our enemies lose themselves in the petty battles of everyday life and laugh at their small victories. Grand strategy is the only path to the greatest reward of all: having the last word.
Congo will have the last word. For Congo is on the side of truth and on the right side of history. Today, pre-imported fear is being sold to the Congolese as if they were in the presence of a planetary power. Yet this is not the case. When we observe the enemy and gauge the various parts that make up his appearances, we understand that he presents flaws on which we can build a gateway into his strategy to weaken him.
Faced with the campaign of terror that the enemy has put in place to provoke maximum chaos, the Congolese must do everything possible to avoid succumbing to fear and anger. Faced with a campaign of terror, his line of defense will therefore be that of rationality.
Congo will have the last word in this phase of its history.