Dangerous Combination for Our Future

Americans have had a tendency to be fiercely independent, especially in the realm of international affairs. A lot of that goes back to the rebellious birth of this country, but is the spirit of '76 fading from the nation. Are elites in this country going to hand our sovereignty to a world body? Democrats fiercely say no, but it is their Presidential who has the least respect for American sovereignty and the right of America to make up its own mind in international affairs. Take this quote on American troop usage in Bosnia from 1994, which would seem to confirm the "Global Test":

"If you mean dying in the course of the United Nations effort, yes, it is worth that. If you mean dying American troops unilaterally going in with some false presumption that we can affect the outcome, the answer is unequivocally no."

No man who has ever said that dying under the flag of the United States of America in service to the nation is not worth it deserves to be Commander in Chief.

But a President Kerry would be only 1/3 of the problem. It seems the Supreme Court is looking to expand its power beyond it's constitutional limitations yet again by weighing international opinion into it's decisions. According to the Christian Science Monitor, 6 of the 9 justices support consulting international law in making their decisions. Justice Kennedy even apparently examined in the capital punishment for minors case whether cruel and unusual punishment needs to be looked at in an international sense instead of the American sense. This is dangerous ground because the American people have no recourse against Supreme Court Justices, and the Justices are now trying to go beyond the limits placed on them by the constitution, and there is literally nothing we can do about it.

I find it odd and disturbing when people who oppose the war in Iraq on isolationist grounds also support John Kerry and the activist activities of the Supreme Court, because Kerry and the Court would do more to harm this countries independence from foreign influence than any foreign war.