Freeing the Executive Branch from the Council on Foreign Relations

The Council on Foreign Relations has over 4,000 members, including some of the leading Wall Street tycoons, business executives, academics, and media figures.  The  CFR's track record is dismal. There is a linear relationship between presidential administrations' foreign policy failures and the extent of CFR participation in their leadership.  All presidential administrations since 1920 have appointed a large number of CFR members to high level posts.  CFR members are responsible for the Vietnam and Korean Wars and for virtually every foreign policy failure of the past 90 years.  Even the Reagan administration included over 80 CFR members. CFR appointments dominate both Republican and Democratic administrations.

CFR has been influential in the news media, which explains why the media has consistently advocated globalist, big government candidates who advocate self-destructive policies that are overly aggressive in general (700 military bases around the world) but passive when defensive force in favor of America's interests is needed.  Rupert Murdoch is a CFR member as is former Fox News president Joseph Peyronnin, currently president of Telemundo.  Fox and Fox News have in recent years employed at least eight CFR members:

Mansoor Ijaz
Morton Kondracke
Robert A. Snow
Linda J. Vester
Rupert Murdoch
Joseph Peyronnin
Vradenburg, George
Paula A. Zahn


It is time that the incompetence and mismanagement of American foreign policy was brought to an end. An organization with fewer than 5,000 members in a country with more than 300 million people should have one sixth of one chance in 10,000 for a federal appointment. The small group in CFR has dominated high level foreign policy appointments. 

I am making it a condition of my supporting any presidential candidate that he be committed to not appointing any member of the Council on Foreign Relations to any executive or leadership post. Otherwise, I am voting Libertarian.