[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

[dragnet2]

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

The CFR itself has no “positions.

Hmmm.

So the CFR has no position in regards to America's best interest?

[VRWCmember]

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)

You are/were a CFR member? You NWO plant! You one-worlder! You evil dominionist! Be gone!

[Jokelahoma]

But... but.... but... it has the word foreign in it! It has to be evil!

[mnehring]

You shouldn’t be spreading that around.. people need their boogey-men.. one day the CFR, the next it’s the Trilateral Commission, another day it is the Buildacheeseburgers.. if people knew what the CFR really ways, they would die of boredom..

[dragnet2]

The CFR itself has no “positions.”

So the CFR just basically sits around and debates, with nothing ever changing, with no power, or influence to change anything in regards to law, politics, government policies etc?