Buchanan Admonishes Council on Foreign Relations: Free Trade Dangerous, Not Free

In November 1998, Pat Buchanan addressed the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, blasting the internationalists for their religious support of free trade. Buchanan�s moving words are as meaningful and relevant today as they were then.



By Patrick J. Buchanan



This is a prestigious forum; and I appreciate the opportunity to address it. As my subject, I have chosen what I believe is the coming and irrepressible conflict between the claims of a new American nationalism and the commands of the global economy.

As you may have heard in my last campaign, I am called by many names. �Protectionist� is one of the nicer ones; but it is inexact. I am an economic nationalist. To me, the country comes before the economy; and the economy exists for the people. I believe in free markets, but I do not worship them. In the proper hierarchy of things, it is the market that must be harnessed to work for man�and not the other way around.

As for the global economy, like the unicorn, it is a mythical beast that exists only in the imagination. In the real world, there are only national economies�Japan�s that has lost its animal spirits, South Korea�s that is deep in recession, Brazil�s which is falling, Indonesia and Russia�s which are in collapse.

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Sounds like old Pat was a starnger in an unholy land that day. The CFR's main goal is the destruction of the United States' sovereignty and the use of it's economy to fuel a world order built on a socialistic platform. I personally hope they fail but thats just me.