Is Obama About To Sell Out US Sovereignty?
October 21, 2009 · By Matthew Campbell
A friend forwarded this video onto me today and it’s worth a viewing folks!
Some notes that I have…
1)Yes, the US Congress would have to ratify any treaty that US President Obama enters into; historians recall Woodrow Wilson’s messy attempt at starting the infamous League of Nations, in which the then-President came back to the States and find that Congress wouldn’t allow the US to join it!
2)No, the treaty isn’t much different from other institutions and treaties the US entered, be it the UN, NATO or NAFTA. The difference, if Lord Monckton is to be believed is that the treaty is specifically designed in order to lock the US into it, which could quite well be a reaction to former President Bush’s removal of the US from previous agreements Bill Clinton set up.
3)Finally, while the US is the focus of this video, shouldn’t we be having more discussion about this treaty and what it means for Canada? On this note, it looks like all of our politicians are failing us by not looking out for our great nation!
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It looks like people will wake after the fact by then the damage is done.
An interesting echo of the Bush era.
Any treaty diminishes the undiluted sovereignty of the signatories, Against that, the signatories weigh the advantages that accrue to them, and to other, larger communities.
Bush’s foreign policy emphasized short term, bilateral arrangements aimed at the achievement of very specific, limited goals, and sought to avoid, or extricate the US from, longer term and multilateral commitments. That’s okay in the short term. Obama, wisely, is bringing the US back into the global discussion.
Reading your more than slightly hyperbolic headline question, Matthew, may I respectfully suggest you review the post about koolaid posted this morning by your colleague?