According to Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the granddaughter of [[Theodore Roosevelt]], the CFR's goal is "a One World Socialist state governed by 'experts' like themselves."<ref name="Perloff2009"/> According to Admiral Chester Ward, a former Judge Advocate of the U.S. Navy who was a member of the CFR for 16 years before resigning in disgust, "the main purpose of the Council on Foreign Relations is promoting the disarmament of U.S. sovereignty and national independence, and submergence into an all-powerful one-world government."<ref name="Perloff2009"/> | According to Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the granddaughter of [[Theodore Roosevelt]], the CFR's goal is "a One World Socialist state governed by 'experts' like themselves."<ref name="Perloff2009"/> According to Admiral Chester Ward, a former Judge Advocate of the U.S. Navy who was a member of the CFR for 16 years before resigning in disgust, "the main purpose of the Council on Foreign Relations is promoting the disarmament of U.S. sovereignty and national independence, and submergence into an all-powerful one-world government."<ref name="Perloff2009"/> |