Maritime hypocrisy puts U.S. at disadvantage

It was quite a scene in the U.S. Senate on May 23 as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Martin Dempsey, all testified before the Foreign Relations Committee. They were there to support the U.S ratification of the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). More significant than their presence was their ...