Rumsfeld is Right: No L.O.S.T. for US
Better yet, the US should be urged to get out of the UN completely. They are chipping away at our sovereignty with these treaties. They are not a legitimate government and thus using the backdoor approach of ‘legislating’ these deals outside of our Congressional oversight.
Tell the Senate to stop approving any UN treaties.
Rumsfeld Says Sea Treaty Would Force US to Share Wealth
“Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld urged U.S. senators to reject the Law of the Sea Treaty backed by the Obama administration because it would force rich countries to give to poorer ones.
“I do not believe the United States should endorse a treaty that makes it a legal obligation for productive countries to pay royalties to less productive countries, based on rhetoric about the common heritage of mankind,” Rumsfeld said today in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The Obama administration says ratifying the 30-year-old treaty is key to exerting U.S. influence in the Asia-Pacific region, a focus of the revamped global strategy the Pentagon presented in January. Rumsfeld’s position puts him at odds with President Barack Obama and also former President George W. Bush, whom Rumsfeld served as secretary of defense for six years.
He resigned in 2006 amid a political backlash against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Rumsfeld, 79, said in his testimony that a system of royalty payments under the United Nations treaty compels countries such as the U.S. to make payments to developing countries without making their own “sovereign choice.””