John Sarbanes: “I commend again the able Senator from Michigan for this proposal that he has before us. The strength of the proposal…”

“I commend again the able Senator from Michigan for this proposal that he has before us. The strength of the proposal, and the care with which it has been crafted, is made manifest by the tortured argument of the Senators from Connecticut and Arizona against his resolution. They are in a convoluted posture to try to misinterpret this in order to try to make an argument against it. It is just incredible what has happened. We need some intellectual integrity here as we deal with this issue. Let me ask the Senator from Michigan if he would answer a question or two. The Senator from Connecticut said earlier that you were precluding the use of military force to exercise our inherent right of self-defense because we would have to have a United Nations resolution before, as I understand--before--we could exercise such force. I read in your resolution a specific affirmation under international law of our inherent right to use military force; is that right?”