Washington is hardly unique in wanting a liberal world system of open trade, freedomof the seas, enforceable rules of contract and protection for foreign investment.
The Navy's shipbuilding program is on a trajectory that is wholly inadequate to assure freedomof the seas, on which not only our security but our economic well-being critically depends.
Ronald Reagan objected to LOST's creation of a supranational agency to govern the world's oceans at the expense of U.S. sovereignty and America's capacity to utilize and assure freedomof the seas .