The Grand Design: A Lecture on US Foreign Policy
By G. Edward Griffin

(This 1968 Lecture exposes the hidden plan that shapes U.S. foreign policy, and its ultimate objective {which hasn't changed}of — disarmament and world government. The tool used to get us to accept the grand design is FEAR. Today we would call the Grand Designers Globalists.)

" . . . the title of this presentation is “The Grand Design.” But I should explain at the outset that the real subject behind this title is U.S. Foreign Policy . . . the purpose of this presentation is to show,not only that there is a Grand Design, but also that it has been the consistent, dominant force behind absolutely every major move by the United States in the foreign policy field since at least the end of World War II.
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But instead of moaning and weeping and longing after those things which are no longer possible (i.e. victory over communism}, let's grow up, be mature, intelligent human beings and face life the way it really is. Rather than living in a fantasy world, dreaming and longing after those things we want but can never have, instead let's find out what is the best we can get, and then work for that.

[All right, now the next step: It's not enough for us just to know that victory is impossible. For our own safety, we must conduct our foreign affairs in such a way as to reflect this knowledge to the other side. We must be extremely careful never to give the enemy any cause to question our benign intent. We must avoid using any words or committing any acts which might even suggest that we were pursuing a goal of victory.
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You see; the argument is, that it's like being locked in a cage with a dangerous animal. You can't get out of the cage and you can't kill the animal. So what do you do when it becomes hungry and restless? You feed it - hoping that, if it is full and comfortable and contented, then it won't eat you.

The people who have created U .S. Foreign Policy over the past two decades view the United States as being locked in a world-wide cage with a dangerous animal called Communism
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The answer that is offered to us is this: We should encourage the Communist world gradually to move toward us – ideologically, politically and economically - while at the same time, we must be willing to move toward them - ideologically, politically and economically - to the point where, hopefully in the not-too-distant future, we'll be able to merge our system with theirs - and of course with those of the rest of the world -to form some kind of a world brotherhood, a world union, a World Government, to be exact, which, by definition, would hold a monopoly over all these weapons of mass destruction. And then nuclear war between nations finally would be impossible - for the simple reason that there no longer would be any nations, including our own. There would remain only a group of disarmed political subdivisions of an all-powerful world government.
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Of course, the Grand Designers scoff at the suggestion that such a concentration of power in one place might ideally be suited for a total consolidation of control into the hands of a small group of power-hungry world politicians. They particularly scoff at the possibility of this power falling into Communist hands through the tactics used so successfully by their agents working within every other coalition government in which they've participated.
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First of all, we would have to be willing to give up certain things that we would rather retain - such as our sovereignty and our independence. In other words, we must be willing to abide by the political dictates of the majority of other nations - one man, one vote in a world democracy. We must merge our monetary system with those of other nations, eventually to form a world currency. We must willingly submit all international disputes to a World Supreme Court, and abide by those decisions regardless of the outcome. And, above all, we must turn over our most powerful weapons and even our armies to international control so that the new world government will possess sufficient military might to compel the various political subdivisions by force, if necessary, to comply with the dictates of its laws and the decrees of its Court.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the men who have formulated this Grand Design consider themselves to be part of the intellectual elite. In other words, in their opinion they're just a little smarter than the rest of us. They feel that the average American doesn't quite have the intelligence or the aptitude to understand the wisdom of their Grand Design. As a matter of fact, they're rather worried that, if enough of the American people suddenly discovered what was really going on, they might get out of hand and insist on their leaders doing something silly - like winning for a change!

And so, in order to keep us contented at the polls, and to prevent us from asking too many questions, sometimes it's necessary for them to put on a pretty good show of standing firm against the Communists, to make some strong nationalistic statements now and then, and perhaps even to get us involved in some “limited” wars which, although they're clearly not waged to endanger the enemy or weaken his position in any way, still, with the daily loss of American lives in a “shooting” war against Communists, who would dare suggest that our foreign policy is soft on Communism!
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