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Originally Posted by Lebell
If the USA continues to investigate those ilegal acts committed by US Soldiers those soldiers will never be put in front of the ICC.
And there is part of the problem: What recourse would we have if they DID put someone in front of the ICC who we determined didn't deserve it?
This is of course the core of why we won't submit to the ICC. Those conducting trials are not accountable to those under it's jurisdiction.
Maybe you don't think this is a problem, but we fought a war to achieve just such a thing.
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I agree...
International prosecution of so-called war crimes in the last century have been a sham. Has anyone been held to account for Rwanda YET? The Milosevic 'Trial' (term used loosley) at the Hague is going on 3 years now, with no end in sight. Darfur continues to burn on. Chechnya is a mess. French troops opened fire with automatic weapons on civilian demonstrators in the Ivory Coast, killing many. Spain is fighting fundamentlaist islamic and basque separatist terrorism in its own country. Israel resorting to wall itself in to protect itself from suicide bombers.
International war crime prosecution will never work because by definition, it is a contradiction, a conflict of interests. Nobody is impartial because everybody is politically motivated by self-interest. And so now, along comes this ICC nonsense, claiming inviolate moral superiority, pure as the driven snow they are, and pout and scream and cry "IMPERIALIST!" and "BULLY!", when America won't drop its pants and bend over, to put itself at the mercy of its critics who have axes to grind. No country in the world would submit to having its own legal institutions so publicly mocked and humiliated.