Is the right against the WTO too?
Posted by Max Bergmann
The right wing ideologues opposing the Law of the Sea fear that the convention will create an unaccountable international body that will establish an unelected court in a foreign land whose rulings could force the U.S. to change its laws and regulations under threat of sanctions.
Despite the fact that the Law of the Sea does nothing of the sort, if there is any consistency to their arguments right wing ideologues need to be asked whether they support the unaccountable international body that does do all of these things: the World Trade Organization.
The fact is that the WTO regulates global trade and polices its member's adherence to WTO regulations. If maintaining all aspects of U.S. sovereignty is the right's number one priority than they simply can't support the WTO. And if they don't support the WTO, than you have to question the right's commitment to free trade, since the whole purpose of the WTO is to enable free trade. If the right is really so scared about the erosion of U.S. sovereignty than they should join all the left wing anti-globalization activists and protest the WTO. That would be quite a sight.
Actually, the right is against the WTO in that sense. Since Bush came into office, haven't we had and lost some WTO related legal battles? We always, always, always defend our right to exempt ourselves from regulations and treaties.
Posted by: Mike M. | October 30, 2007 at 09:44 PM
There are plenty of people on the right who are opposed to the WTO. Duncan Hunter, for one. (See http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Duncan_Hunter_Free_Trade.htm ) At the same time, there are many on the right who are for the WTO and for (or at least not actively against) the Law of the Sea treaty, including many business interests. It's important to recognize that there are many factions within the "right" and the "left". Neither is monolithic. Are some of these groups inconsistent in their views? Probably. But surely it is not only the "right" that is guilty of this.
Posted by: Simon Lester | October 30, 2007 at 10:41 PM
There is no comparison between "free trade" and the Law of the Sea.
"Free trade" is no such thing, it is the right of US corporations to out-source their manufacturing and import its products duty-free, as well as giving foreign corporations the right to avoid state and national laws in the US. So "free trade" costs Americans jobs, national income and control over pollution, mining rights, etc. China has figured this out and is setting up manufacturing plants in Central America which will be able to export products to the US duty-free. This is good for American consumers until they totally max out their credit cards and can't afford to pay them off because of job losses.
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