in an address to a branch of the arab ba’ath party, aflaq speaks of "‘the arab mission’". this ‘arab mission’ is to return the arabs to the greatness they were in the past and to unite the arab regions to form one nation, also known as pan-arabism. he says: "“the experience in which our struggle takes place is that of the arab nation dismembered into different countries and statelets, artificial and counterfeit; we struggle until we can reunite these scattered members[…]”""." according to aflaq, this mission can only be accomplished through revolution: "“our past was a revolution and we will never reach its level or meet with it except through revolution.”"