Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said that handing the PSI over to the United Nations would be tantamount to a "regulatory straightjacket overseen by an international bureaucracy." Minority Leader John Boehner was more specific, explaining that the move would "provide all members of the UN access to the strategies, routes, and participating countries in the program."
Boehner went on to say that “America’s national security is the sovereign responsibility of America alone. It should not be outsourced to foreign governments and international bodies.” But that is exactly what liberals are doing.
In 2004, John Kerry was only voicing the overwhelming sentiment of his party who view the United Nations charter as a higher authority than the U.S. Constitution.
When it was time to debate war with Iraq in 2002, Democrats in both Houses forgot their oath “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States,” and looked to Hans Blix and the UN for consent to go to war. The substitute amendment they offered at the time – the Multilateral Use of Force Authorization Act of 2002 – would only allow the U.S. to send troops to Iraq “pursuant to a resolution of the United Nations Security Council.” Carl Levin, who now chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, said during that debate that “the United Nations should authorize member states to use military force” to destroy WMD in Iraq.
A few months later, after the war began, Teddy Kennedy was still protesting what he perceived as a snub of the UN. Kennedy referred to Thomas Aquinas, complaining that the Iraq conflict was illegal because a just war can only be declared by a “legitimate authority acting on behalf of the people.” The “legitimate authority” to which Kennedy referred was the United Nations.
Today, Nancy Pelosi and her pals are attempting to outsource our homeland security to the likes of Belgium, Congo, Panama, Slovakia, Ghana, Peru and South Africa, which currently are members of the Security Council. It is a Council that only a few years ago had Syria as a member, and last year barely denied Hugo Chavez’ Venezuela a seat.
In truth, this debate isn’t about the PSI. It really is about the fact that liberals no longer believe America is the greatest country in the world. For if they did, they wouldn’t look to the UN to protect us.