Do As We Say, Not As We Do

A U.S.-Canadian dispute has intensified over plans to build two liquefied natural gas terminals in Maine, the Wall Street Journal said.

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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government said it will block LNG ships from reaching the proposed terminals in Maine by enforcing sovereignty over the sea passage, the Journal reported. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other U.S. officials have said Canada’s position violates the Law of the Sea Treaty, the newspaper reported.

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(emphasis mine)

The only problem with that sort of muttering is that the United States has yet to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty, and while Bush has recommended that the Senate do so there is a lot of upper-right-quadrant rhetoric against it, and (as far as I am aware) the treaty has yet to be ratified by them.

You’d think someone important like the US Secretary of State would know that if you’re not a participant to a treaty ya just can’t invoke it, or complain about others who are are, in your particular opinion, unwilling to follow a set of rules that your government has refused to agree to.