CFR = Council on Foreign Relations. It's a think-tank, not unlike the Heritage Foundation or the Cato Institute.

"Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American foreign policy think tank based in New York City. It describes itself as 'A nonpartisan Resource for Information and Analysis', that is 'dedicated to increasing America's understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy,' and accomplishes this mainly by promoting constructive, closed debates and discussions, clarifying world issues through research and analysis, and publishing the noted journal Foreign Affairs and related content online."

Sound like worthwhile goals to me. What's so scary about it? There are think-tanks up the ziggy. None of them are government agencies, not even the Project for the New American Century, despite the fact that several members of the Bush administration are in the PNAC. I'd be more apprehensive about them that I would be about the CFR.

Sometimes I suspect that GUEST's aim is to divert us from the real issues.

Don Firth