“Do you feel that U.S. foreign policy has been a success or a failure for the past 25 years?”
That question was recently put to George S. Franklin who is the coordinator for the Trilateral Commission, probably the most influential non-governmental planning group in the world today. He answered: “On the whole it’s been a very great success in the last 25 years” despite “some very black spots such as the Vietnam War.”
The Trilateral Commission is the elite group of financiers, economic czars, and their proteges, who are planning for a new world order based on the triangular relationship of Western Europe, Japan, and the United States. The Trilateral godfather is David Rockefeller. Its intellectual and organizational craftsman was Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Its most famous member was Jimmy Carter. Other ex-members who have graduated to positions of high power are Vice President Walter Mondale, Chief Disarmament Negotiator Paul C. Warnke, Ambassador Gerard S. Smith (former chief SALT negotiator and now in charge of non-proliferation matters), Ambassador Elliot L. Richardson (who represents the U.S. in the UN Law of the Sea Conference), UN Ambassador Andrew Young, and Secretary of the Treasury W. Michael Blumenthal.
Many other Trilateralists formerly held very high government offices, such as Henry Kissinger.
The influence of the Trilateralists stems not from the Commission itself but from the financial and economic clout of its individual members. The Commission is simply a vehicle for getting them together to orchestrate their activities, to arrange for intellectual backup for their ideas, and to develop proteges to implement their plans in government, foundations, communications, and universities.
According to George Franklin, the Trilateral Commission was born at the 1972 meeting of the Bilderbergers, the exclusive clique of very important U.S. and Western European financiers who met secretly each April or May for 20 years at the invitation of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. The Bilderberg group has lost some of its luster since its chairman resigned after the expose that he had taken a secret million-dollar payoff from Lockheed.
Since the Trilateral Commission concerns itself directly with international relations and foreign policy, it is significant that its official spokesman believes that, except for a few “spots” U.S. foreign policy has been “a very great success.” It is difficult to see how any informed observer could demote the importance of the Vietnam War to the lowly rank of a “spot.” It occupied 10 of the last 25 years, draining our finest young men into a deliberate losing war which could have been won in six months by letting our Navy blockade North Vietnam.
Regrettably, Vietnam was the centerpiece of the policies acquiesced in by the apostles of appeasement and the architects of accommodation who have been running our State Department for the last 25 years. Our defeat. in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia was part and parcel of the advance of world Communism and the retreat by the West all over the world.
France and Italy are teetering on the edge of Communist takeovers. Most major Italian cities have Communist governments, and the Red, have neutralized the government of Rome and terrorized its citizens.
Cuba is a good illustration of the 25 year bankruptcy of our foreign policy. The State Department first assisted Castro into power in the belief he was not a Communist, then encouraged Cubans to throw him out, then abandoned the brave freedom fighters after their invasion had begun, resulting in their humiliating betrayal at the Bay of Pigs. Now the State Department is closing its eyes to the fact of Soviet pilots flying many Russian war planes from Cuban airports, and is urging a normalization of relations with the Kremlin’s puppet.
In Africa the Communists have captured Angola, Mozambique, and Ethiopia. Our foreign policy of the last 25 years has been indeed a very great success — for the communists. The nagging question is, why do the Trilateralists think it has been a success?
