David Price: “Some of our friends today, in debate, have suggested that somehow adoption of the Spratt resolution would yield American…”

“Some of our friends today, in debate, have suggested that somehow adoption of the Spratt resolution would yield American sovereignty to the U.N. or, as one speaker put it, would subordinate foreign policy to the Security Council. Is it not true that under the Spratt resolution the decision of the United States to back up U.N. inspections, to back up U.N. enforcement actions, would be ours to make and that, moreover, those troops would remain under U.S. command? Is there any ground for treating this as some kind of abdication of sovereignty?”