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“Law of the Sea Travesty”
By Bill Steigerwald
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, September 26, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Ronald Reagan rejected the United Nations’ Convention on the Law of the Sea 25 years ago, but the 202-page treaty generally known by its acronym LOST will not die. Reagan didn’t like LOST — which its conservative critics say would compromise U.S. sovereignty and cede control of the oil, gas and mineral riches of the deepest seabeds to UN bureaucrats — because it was so obviously collectivist, redistributionist, bureaucratic and antithetical to American economic and military interests.

But the Bush administration, the Pentagon and many large mining companies are pushing for the United States to join the 155 countries that have ratified LOST. As Sen. Joe Biden prepares to hold Senate hearings on the Law of the Sea Treaty on Thursday, Sept. 27, we called one of its chief opponents, Cliff Kincaid, president of America’s Survival Inc. (www.usasurvival.org.) to find out why Reagan was right and President Bush is wrong about LOST:”


2,067 posted on 09/26/2007 2:49:30 AM PDT by Cindy
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