A Navy LOST?

Washington Times | Frontpagemagazine ^ | October 10, 2007 | Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

[SJackson]

Irony of ironies: The principal champion of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is the United States Navy. Yet predictably few organizations would suffer more than America's naval forces from a supranational government of the oceans empowered by U.S. accession to that treaty.

The absurdity of this situation was on display last week as the Navy's former senior officer, retired Chief of Naval Operations Vernon Clark, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Adm. Clark waxed on about LOST as "a Magna Carta for the oceans that guarantees navigation freedoms throughout the world's largest maneuver space." The committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, declared in about as many words that, if the Navy wants the treaty, the Senate should give it to them. Period.

Fortunately, a necessary corrective was offered the next day by another distinguished retired four-star, Adm. James "Ace" Lyons. In an article in The Washington Times' Commentary pages, the former Pacific Fleet commander in chief declared: "It is inconceivable to this naval officer why the Senate would willingly want to forfeit its responsibility for America's freedom of the seas to the unelected and unaccountable international agency that would be created by ratification of LOST."

Adm. Lyons appreciates a reality apparently overlooked by those promoting the Navy's official line on LOST: The treaty entails obligations that are at odds with the U.S. sea services' routine operations; involve sweeping commitments to protect the "marine environment" the Navy will almost certainly contravene; and institute several tribunals to prosecute complaints that arise in these or other areas.

[EagleUSA]

Leave it to the Senate to keep “sinking” (pun) America. Useless b@stards.

[wastedyears]

US out of the UN, UN out of the US.

[Jeff Head]

"It is inconceivable to this naval officer why the Senate would willingly want to forfeit its responsibility for America's freedom of the seas to the unelected and unaccountable international agency that would be created by ratification of LOST."

God bless you and God's speed Admiral Lyons. May your voice and those of others like you, who are committed to both the soveriegnty of this Republic and their sacred oath to uphold and defend its constitutton, carry the day.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

For the life of me, I can’t understand why the USN is pushing this thing. Are the admirals actually wanting to outsource their job of protecting America’s interest at sea to the U.N.??????????

[snowrip]

"It is inconceivable to this naval officer why the Senate would willingly want to forfeit its responsibility for America's freedom of the seas to the unelected and unaccountable international agency that would be created by ratification of LOST."

Actually, it's not THAT inconceivable... when you realize our commander-in-chief is a NWO cheerleader willing to let America take it in the a$$ from Mexico, China, the UN, and anyone else with a globalist cause.

[calcowgirl]

U.S. LOST at sea?
Washington Times
James Lyons
October 5, 2007

[Spirochete]

"... a Magna Carta for the oceans ..."

How did this liberal dipshit become CNO?

[Coldwater Creek]

We are a military family (USN) President Bush is the best CIC that this country has had for years and years!

[Jacquerie]

The opinion of one Admiral, even a former CNO is not necessarily synonymous with the opinion of the Navy.

[Rockitz]

There must be a big payoff for some big corporations if this gets through? Does anyone know the provisions well enough to understand who will profit and who’s payroll former Admiral Clark is on?

My tagline bares repeating in such unexplainable circumstances.

This isn’t rocket science- Follow the money and you’ll find the truth.

[PeterFinn]

He’s just saying what the RINO-in-Chief ordered him to say.