In his article *“A fresh approach to looking at foreign threats”* Council on Foreign Relations member David Ignatius tells us the USA has a problem, Americans are getting fed up with endless war. CFR member Dave tells us how a group of bi-partisan commission members has traditionally been called together to solve foreign threats. As an example CFR member Dave lists the 2006 Iraq Study Group whose members were *James Baker III*<http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=B>, Lee Hamilton, Sandra Day O’Connor, and Vernon Jordon. CFR member Dave tells us that these folk turned to Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft for advice. What CFR member Dave leaves out is that this bi-partisan group all belong to the Council on Foreign Relations. Also left out of the story is that ten years later CFR member Paul Wolfowitz tells us *how the US bungled Iraq*<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/18/10_years_on_paul_wolfowitz_admits_us_bungled_in_iraq_117492.html>. CFR member Dave’s fresh approach is putting together a new younger bi-partisan to get American Citizens back on track and into supporting a “strong foreign policy”, a euphemism for more endless war. Left out of CFR member Dave’s fresh approach is that the members of his younger group are Council on Foreign Relations members or stooges closely tied to the CFR . *Eighteen National Security Advisors*<http://tomjefferson1976.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/council-on-foreign-relations-membership-chart/>, Eighteen Central Intelligence Agency Directors, *Twenty-Two Secretary of States* <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pepis/ANJJfnZaTo8> and Eighteen Department of Defense Directors are members of the Council on Foreign Relations. The Council on Foreign Relations run *Carlyle Group*<http://tomjefferson1976.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/operation-this-is-a-hold-up-usa-the-cfrs-carlyle-group/>has cornered the defense industry and are closely tied to the Intelligence Community. The Carlyle Group owns the *Booze-Allen NSA spy nest*<http://tomjefferson1976.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/it-is-time-to-sue-the-council-on-foreign-relations-and-the-nsa-for-violating-the-privacy-of-millions-of-citizens/>that Edward Snowden worked for. *Should one small group* <http://t.co/l9mCMzS> that profits from endless war be in charge of deciding the US foreign policy threat response? David Ignatius’ Fresh Approach to looking at foreign threats isn’t fresh at all, the Council on Foreign Relations has kept the USA involved in endless war for 91 years. If we follow CFR member Dave’s advice the Council on Foreign Relations will keep the world at war for another 100 years. If you want some fresh advice for looking at foreign policy threats listen to *War Is a Racket*<file:///C:/Users/David/Documents/My%20Documents%20Compaq/cfr/David%20Ignatios%20-%20STINK/War%20is%20a%20Racket%20by%20Smedley%20Butler>by Two Time Medal of Honor Winner Major General Smedley Butler.
The Ignatius article follows, modified so that Council on Foreign Relations members are easily identifiable. *A fresh approach to looking at foreign threats <http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/david-ignatius-a-fresh-approach-to-looking-at-foreign-threats/2013/12/06/a54bce74-5ea6-11e3-95c2-13623eb2b0e1_story.html><?????>* *By David Ignatius <http://www.washingtonpost.com/david-ignatius/2011/02/17/ABXXcOJ_page.html>, Published: December 6 E-mail the writer <davidignat...@washpost.com?subject=Reader%20feedback%20for%20'A%20fresh%20approach%20to%20looking%20at%20foreign%20threats'> * The chairs of the House and Senate intelligence committees *stated last weekend*<http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/12/01/terrorists-are-gaining-ground-intelligence-committee-heads-say/>that the world was getting more unsafe. A few days later, the Pew Research Center reported that 52 percent of Americans think the U.S. should “*mind its own business internationally*<http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/07/29/americans-want-to-mind-their-own-business/>,” the highest such total in the nearly 50-year history of that query. Taken together, these two items symbolize a serious emerging national problem. The crackup ahead lies in the mismatch between the challenges facing America and the public’s willingness to support activist foreign policy to deal with them. Simply put: There is a splintering of the traditional consensus for global engagement at the very time that some big new problems are emerging. The traditional American response to such puzzles has been to form a bipartisan commission. A model is the pathbreaking 2006 *Iraq Study Group*<http://www.usip.org/isg/iraq_study_group_report/report/1206/index.html>, co-chaired by <Council on Foreign Relations Member> James A. Baker III, a former secretary of state; and <Council on Foreign Relations Member> Rep. Lee Hamilton, a former Democratic congressman from Indiana. Giants serving with them included <Council on Foreign Relations Member> Sandra Day O’Connor, a retired Supreme Court justice; and <Council on Foreign Relations Member> Vernon Jordan, a banker, civil rights leader and counselor to presidents. For advice, they turned to such luminaries as <Council on Foreign Relations Member> Henry Kissinger, <Council on Foreign Relations Member> Zbigniew Brzezinski and<Council on Foreign Relations Member> Brent Scowcroft, all brilliant former national security advisers. All are part of the traditional foreign policy establishment that still commands the high ground intellectually but does not reflect the restless, frustrated mood of the American public. The old consensus is broken and needs to be reinvented and refreshed. What should a modern-day commission be worrying about? Rep. Mike Rogers and <Council on Foreign Relations Member> Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the chairs of the House and Senate intelligence committees, respectively, *said last Sunday*<http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/12/01/terrorists-are-gaining-ground-intelligence-committee-heads-say/>on CNN that the world is not safer today than a few years ago. They were referring to the resurgence of al-Qaeda in Syria, Iraq, Libya and elsewhere. These are not two-bit al-Qaeda franchises anymore; the State Department received an intelligence report recently that 5,500 foreign fighters are operating with al-Qaeda’s affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. How should the United States combat this threat? Sorry, no consensus on that. Al-Qaeda is even putting down roots in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, according to Gen. Mohammed Farid el-Tohamy, the head of the Egyptian intelligence service. How can the United States help Egypt, its most important ally in the Arab world, defeat Islamic terrorism at the same time as it moves to restore civilian government and a measure of democracy? No consensus on that one, either. And there’s the huge foreign-policy challenge of Iran’s nuclear program. *President Obama* <http://www.wnd.com/2008/11/80686/> *has made a bold interim deal*<http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/kerry-in-geneva-raising-hopes-for-historic-nuclear-deal-with-iran/2013/11/23/53e7bfe6-5430-11e3-9fe0-fd2ca728e67c_story.html>with Iran. But to complete the agreement, and ensure that Iran’s nuclear program is truly peaceful, Obama will need strong support from Congress and the public. Right now, it’s hard to imagine that he will get it. The public doesn’t want war, but it doesn’t seem to like entangling diplomacy much, either. A modest proposal is that Obama should convene a younger group of American leaders: strategists, technologists, professors. It would be a learning exercise — to understand how the country should deal with the problems of the next 10 years without making the mistakes of the past 10. What has America learned from its struggles with Islamic extremism? What lessons do we take from our painful expeditionary wars? How can Americans too young to remember the *Iranian revolution of 1979*<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021102111.html>engage that country, but also set clear limits on its behavior? Happily, a new generation of thinkers could form the bipartisan group I’m imagining. If you don’t know their names yet, you should: *Marc Lynch*<http://elliott.gwu.edu/lynch>of George Washington University, known to his online fans as “Abu Aardvark”;<*Council on Foreign Relations Stooge*<http://www.foreignaffairs.com/author/marc-lynch>> *David Kilcullen* <http://caerusassociates.com/team/david-kilcullen/>, one of the architects of counterinsurgency success in Iraq and author of “*Out of the Mountains*<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199737509/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0199737509&linkCode=as2&tag=slatmaga-20>,” an iconoclastic new book on future urban conflicts; <Council on Foreign Relations Member> *Michèle Flournoy*<http://www.defense.gov/bios/biographydetail.aspx?biographyid=172>, a clear-eyed former undersecretary of defense; and <Council on Foreign Relations Member> *Jared Cohen*<http://time100.time.com/2013/04/18/time-100/slide/jared-cohen/>and <*Council on Foreign Relations Stooge*<https://twitter.com/CFR_Comm/status/392386640934477825>> *Alec Ross* <http://alecross.com/>, two technological wizards who advised the State Department under <*Council on Foreign Relations Stooge*<http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/01/31/clinton_says_farewell_at_cfr>> Hillary Clinton and are now with Google and *Johns Hopkins University*<http://tomjefferson1976.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/nitzes-not-sees-exercises-in-controlled-insanity/>, respectively. I’d add the administration’s own<Council on Foreign Relations member> *Salman Ahmed*<http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/60459/salman-ahmed/no-size-fits-all>,<*Council on Foreign Relations stooge*<http://www.foreignaffairs.com/author/antony-j-blinken>> *Tony Blinken*<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/antony-j-blinken/gIQAifsc9O_topic.html>,<*Council on Foreign Relations Stooge*<http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2011/12/18/the-rhodes-doctrine/>> *Ben Rhodes* <http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/author/Ben%20Rhodes> , ; <Council on Foreign Relations Member> *Wendy Sherman*<http://www.state.gov/p/>and ; <*Council on Foreign Relations stooge*<http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/01/31/clinton_says_farewell_at_cfr>> *Jake Sullivan*<http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2023831_2023829_2025209,00.html>. What encourages me is that the same American public that wants the United States to mind its own business internationally also registers a two-thirds majority in favor of greater U.S. involvement in the global economy, *according to the Pew poll*<http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/07/29/americans-want-to-mind-their-own-business/>. Young respondents were even more internationalist on this issue than their elders. This is a connected generation that can address problems in new ways — but it needs to get started. *Read more from David Ignatius’s archive <http://www.washingtonpost.com/david-ignatius/2011/02/17/ABXXcOJ_page.html>, follow him on Twitter <https://twitter.com/IgnatiusPost> or subscribe to his updates on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/david.ignatius>.* -- -- Please consider seriously the reason why these elite institutions are not discussed in the mainstream press despite the immense financial and political power they wield? 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