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Article: The Panamanian mess. (column)
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- National Review
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- November 10, 1989
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The Panamanian Mess Concerning that festival of indecision in Washington last Tuesday, a few observations:
1. We are very much behind in our judicial thinking in international affairs. This is a point to be stressed, that we, repeat we, are behind in our thinking--because international law is pretty much whatever we--or the Soviet Union--or Patagonia--says it is. We have a World Court, but it is heavily political and has, in the past, contradicted itself. When President Reagan, under the urging of William Casey, decided to blockade Nicaragua, Nicaragua took its complaint to the World Court and won. That decision froze the thinking of some American legislators, ...