Leon Panetta actually said...

The time is now for the Senate to do what others have failed to do, join the Law of the Sea Convention.

How can you even assert that when you are not even--have acceded to the Law of the Seas Convention?

But in no other situation in which our security interests are so much at stake do we consider customary international law good enough to pro...

The fact is that we are dealing with a world in which there are myriad threats that we confront now.