30. “a failure of epic”: Ibid.
31. “sophisticated UN”: Ibid.
32. “affirm, recognize, underscore”: Ibid.
33. “To be sure”: Ibid.
34. “some of the”: Bradley Brooks, “Rio+20, the unhappy environmental summit,” AP/The Jakarta Post, June 23, 2012, http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/06/23/rio20-unhappy-environmental-summit.html.
35. “[W]e saw anything”: Ibid.
PART SIX
1. “After 12 years”: AMICC, “Chronology of US Actions Related to the International Criminal Court,” amicc.org, http://www.amicc.org/docs/US%20Chronology.pdf.
2. “the use of armed force”: “Delivering on the promise of a fair, effective and independent court > than the crime of aggression,” Iccnow.org, http://www,iccnow.org/?mod=aggression.
3. “Pressure [was] building”: Reuters, “Bush Cancels Visit To Switzerland Due To Threat Of Torture Prosecution, Rights Groups Say,” huffingtonpost.com, May 25, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/05/bush-switzerland-torture_n_819175.html.
4. “shall satisfy itself”: Marion Smith, “An Inconvenient Founding: America’s Principles Applied to the ICC,” Heritage Foundation, February 18, 2010, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/02/an-inconvenient-founding-americas-principles-applied-to-the-icc.
5. “our government has”: BBC News, “US to Resume Engagement with ICC,” bbc.com, November 16, 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8363282.stm.
6. “so far completed”: Eric Posner, “The Absurd International Criminal Court,” wsj.com, June 12, 2012, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303753904577452122153205162.html.
7. “includes few authoritarian”: Ibid.
8. “Now… it is”: Ibid.
PART SEVEN
1. “orbital debris and”: Rose Gottemoeller, “A Code for Outer Space, as Seen From the State Dept.,” nytimes.com, March 15, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/opinion/a-code-for-outer-space-as-seen-from-the-state-dept.html.
2. “What the code would”: Taylor Dinerman, “America’s Suicidal Space Diplomacy,” Gatestone Institute, January 12, 2012, http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2751/america-suicidal-space-diplomacy.
3. “Outer space has”: John Bolton and John C. Yoo, “Hands off the Heavens,” nytimes.com, March 8, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/opinion/hands-off-the-heavens.html.
4. “a transparent”: Ibid.
5. “Obama is eroding”: Ibid.
6. “term [is] often”: Ibid.
7. “in a war”: Ibid.
8. “if the United States”: Ibid.
9. “the administration asserts”: Michael Listner, “Congressional opposition to a Code of Conduct for space,” thespacereview.com, February 6, 2012, http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2018/1.
10. “require the Department”: Ibid.
11. “require the Department”: Michael Listner, “Congressional opposition to a Code of Conduct for space,” The Space Review, February 6, 2012, http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2018/1.
12. “Imagine”: Email from Zubrin to Dick Morris, July 5, 2012.
13. “planetary protection”: Ibid.
PART EIGHT
1. “‘The European Union’”: Elisabeth Rosenthal, “U.S. and Europe Battle Over Carbon Fees for Airlines,” nytimes.com, July 27, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/business/energy-environment/us-air-carriers-brace-for-emissions-fees-in-europe.html?pagewanted=all.
2. “a group of”: UN News Centre, “UN experts call for global financial tax to offset costs of economic crisis,” UN.org, May 14, 2012, http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41988&Cr=economic&Cr1=crisis.
3. “Where the world”: Ibid.
4. “it is high”: Ibid.
PART TEN
1. “97 smallest nations”: Wikipedia, “List of Countries by population,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population#List.
2. All Told: “Voting Practices in the United Nations,” 2010, www.state.gov, http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/162416.pdf.
3. In 2011, Freedom: Freedom House, “Combined Average Ratings—Independent Countries,” 2011, http://www.freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/inline_images/CombinedAverageRatings%28IndependentCountries%29FIW2011.pdf.
4. “A Partly Free”: Freedom House, “Freedom in the World 2012: The Arab Uprisings and Their Global Repercussions,” 2012, http://www.freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/inline_images/FIW%202012%20Booklet—Final.pdf, p. 4.
5. Here’s How Freedom: Freedom House, “Combined Average Ratings—Independent Countries,” 2011, http://www.freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/inline_images/CombinedAverageRatings%28IndependentCountries%29FIW2011.pdf.
6. “Corruption is the”: “What is the Corruption Perceptions Index?,” transparency.org, http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/in_detail/.
7. They take a: Ibid.
8. “the perceived likelihood”: Ibid.
9. They issue a: Ibid.
10. “series of in-country”: Ibid.
11. “Here are the”: “Demands for Better Government Must Be Heeded,” transparency.org, http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/results/.
12. The program included: Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, Outrage (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), p. 44.
13. “Corruption of the”: “Probe: $1.8B diverted to Hussein regime,” CNN.com, October 27, 2005, http://articles.cnn.com/2005-10-27/world/oil.food.report_1_oil-for-food-program-kickbacks-volcker?_s=PM:WORLD.
14. Paul Volcker estimated: Morris and McGann, Outrage, p. 59.
15. A year later: Ibid., p. 60.