Inside track.

"Americans must think that our political and academic elites have gone utterly mad at a time when three-and-a-half years, approaching four years after September 11, we still don't have border security. And this group of elites is talking about not defending our borders, finally, but rather creating new ones. It's astonishing."

CNN commentator Lou Dobbs, on his June 9, 2005 "Lou Dobbs Tonight," was referring to a Council on Foreign Relations panel that wants the United States to "create what effectively would be a common border that includes Mexico and Canada." This objective is now being pursued under the Security and Prosperity Partnership established by President Bush and his Mexican and Canadian counterparts in 2005.

"The ultimate goal of any White House policy ought to be a North American economic and political alliance similar in scope and ambition to the European Union."

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, in a September 7, 2001 editorial, called for North American integration.

"After consultation with our Canadian partners, we will strive to consolidate a North American economic community whose benefits reach the lesser-developed areas of the region and extend to the most vulnerable social groups in our countries."

Meeting at Rancho San Cristobal in Guanajuato, Mexico, President George W. Bush and President Vicente Fox jointly announced their intent for a "North American economic community" on February 16, 2001.

"NAFTA was merely the first draft of an economic constitution for North America."

Robert Pastor, one of the key architects' of North American integration, made this observation in the January/February 2004 issue of Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations.

"We cannot leap into world government in one quick step.... The precondition for eventual globalization--genuine globalization--is progressive regionalization."

Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski expressed his view of regionalism at Mikhail Gorbachev's October 1995 State of the World Forum.

Hemispheric institutions, including the OAS [Organization of American States] and Inter-American Development Bank and now the NAFTA institutions, can be forged into the vital mechanisms of hemispheric governance.

Then-National Security Adviser Anthony Lake recommended this course of action in a November 29, 1993 memo to President Bill Clinton.

"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure--one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." This incredible admission against interest was made by David Rockefeller in his own book, Memoirs (2002).