[dragnet2]

I understand your position.

However, I have a basic question.

Do you think the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has America's best interest in mind?

[mnehring]

Do you think the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has America's best interest in mind?

It depends on who hires them to research an issue or create policy papers. If Haiti asks the CFR to research and write a policy paper on improving trade with the Dominican Republic, then they will have Haiti's best interest in mind.... They do not make or enact laws, they are a think tank.

[VRWCmember]

Do you think the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has America's best interest in mind?

Since the CFR is a very diverse think-tank with members from across the political, philosophical, and economic spectrum, I doubt that it has a common goal vis a vis "America's best interest". I would say that many of its members have America's best interest in mind while others are much less concerned with America's best interest.

[MeanWestTexan]

The CFR itself has no “positions.”

It’s like Hardball. The guests obviously do not agree. Same idea with the CFR.

The CFR (which is a pointless debate society; I know, I was in it, asked to be a vice-chair of an energy-related task force) appoints committees (”Independent Task Forces”), generally of three chief people, who are wholly independent. They generate a paper or proposal.

Then other members debate the value of the same, oftentimes generating articles critcal of the committee report.

Sometimes a committee’s idea is good, sometimes it is bovine excrement.

But the membership comes from ALL OVER the polictical spectrum, left, right, sane, insane.

The entire thing is seriously misunderstood.

Here is an explaination of the Task Forces (that generate the reports, some good, some B.S.), note “wholly independent.”:

http://www.cfr.org/about/task_forces.html

Here is a particularly foul report from one of those task forces, often cited as the evil of CFR:

http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/building_a_north_american_community.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Ftask_force_report

Here are responsive articles stating that the previous task force report is B.S. (from Tom Tancredo):

http://www.cfr.org/publication/11141/tancredo.html?breadcrumb=%2Fissue%2Fpublication_list%3Fid%3D27%26page%3D3

and this:

http://www.cfr.org/publication/8814/immigration_benefits_and_terrorism.html?breadcrumb=%2Fissue%2Fpublication_list%3Fid%3D27%26page%3D4

Here is an example of the back-and-forth generated (again, bit like Hardball, but polite):

http://www.cfr.org/publication/12971/path_to_citizenship_for_current_illegal_immigrants.html?breadcrumb=%2Fissue%2Fpublication_list%3Fid%3D27%26page%3D2

[infowarrior]

Do you think the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has America's best interest in mind?

Given that the CFR was deeply instrumental in the creation of the UN, extreme doubt obtains...

the infowarrior