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- From: wbralick@afit.af.mil (Will Bralick)
- Subject: Re: Justification for the Space Program
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.044334.19970@afit.af.mil>
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- References: <C01Eq7.JLp@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Dec29.232413.25117@cs.rochester.edu> <C01yB8.1Gx@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:43:34 GMT
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- In article <C01yB8.1Gx@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- | In article <1992Dec29.232413.25117@cs.rochester.edu> dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
- | >(1) The US never ratified the Law of the Sea Treaty either...
- |
- | However, almost everybody else did, I believe. This makes the US a lone
- | holdout against accepted international law, and there will be considerable
- | pressure on it to toe the line even if it has not formally agreed.
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- International law is law which sovereign states choose to violate when-
- ever it is perceived to be in their best interests to do so. The UN can
- pass resolutions all day long and into the night -- they are only as good
- as the paper they are written on if they cannot be enFORCEd (by economic
- or military means).
-
- At any rate, if the US has not signed the treaty then it is not bound by
- the treaty.
-
- | By
- | contrast, almost nobody has ever ratified the Moon Treaty, so it can safely
- | be ignored.
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- If we were the _only_ nation to ratify it then we would be bound by it.
- Isn't sovereignty great?
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-
- Regards,
-
- --
-
- Will Bralick Speaking _only_ for myself.
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