I agree with Ben and Sean - this book is an intellectual sham.As noted by Michael Scharf in an interview he did with Scott Horton, "Goldsmith and Posner based their conclusions on selective use of anecdotal case studies, and their identification of the motivations of the decision makers is based entirely on conjecture." "Goldsmith and Posner, along with University of California Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo, were part of a group of scholars whose self-proclaimed agenda was to convince government officials, political elites, and the general public that it is permissible for policy makers to ignore international law whenever they perceive it to be in their interest to do so, especially in the context of the war on terror."The United States only invokes international law as binding law when it wants to constrain other nations. This is another classic case of "American exceptionalism" gone awry.