>>>This CFR club seems to be quite Bolton-like, judging by their stand.
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>>Bet you didn't bother to check their Board of Directors, which includes Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell - neither of which, IIRC, are quite Bolton-like.
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>>> For a litmus test, I read their paper on Russia,
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>>all 115 of them?
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>Actually this guy http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060710/cohen/2 has a more down-to-earth approach and doesn't repeat the official mantra. It's one of the 115.
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>But, judging by the blurbs by the links on the page you mention, most of them do.

Actually, since I think this is well worth reading, from page 3:

§ A growing military encirclement of Russia, on and near its borders, by US and NATO bases, which are already ensconced or being planned in at least half the fourteen other former Soviet republics, from the Baltics and Ukraine to Georgia, Azerbaijan and the new states of Central Asia. The result is a US-built reverse iron curtain and the remilitarization of American-Russian relations.

§ A tacit (and closely related) US denial that Russia has any legitimate national interests outside its own territory, even in ethnically akin or contiguous former republics such as Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia. How else to explain, to take a bellwether example, the thinking of Richard Holbrooke, Democratic would-be Secretary of State? While roundly condemning the Kremlin for promoting a pro-Moscow government in neighboring Ukraine, where Russia has centuries of shared linguistic, marital, religious, economic and security ties, Holbrooke declares that far-away Slav nation part of "our core zone of security."

Read the rest. This guy knows what he's talking about.