We will bury you, esq.

• Author: Anderson, Kenneth
• Position: International law - Brief Article

In current circumstances, when, for reasons of their own, Russia, China and France as Security Council members have all given assent (for the moment) to U.S. action, it may be a temptation for the Bush administration to accede to this process of seeking to legitimize its actions under the international law professoriat's view of international law....

This would be, however, a mistake of a grave order. In seeking to satisfy the inflated expectations of international law as seen by those international elites (whose principal desire is to expand the brief of international law itself), the U.S. would bury itself-in procedural arguments, fruitless attempts at consensus, vetoes from...