Call it American schizophrenia. Or perhaps it’s a simple case of hubris. What ever it is, the United States’ refusal to submit to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court at the Hague signals to the world that we are far less concerned about leading a global war on terror than we are on defending an atavistic sense of our own interests.
Amid much international fanfare, an international criminal court opened July 1, 2002, at the Hague. Seventy four countries have ratified the treaty calling for creation of the court. The court’s new jurisdiction? The trial of war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide committed on or after the day the court opened. Jurisdiction is limited to natural persons, not to such corporate entities as nations or armies.
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