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Is it too much to say that maybe we don't trust the rest of the world to try our soldiers as much as we trust our own government to? We are the strongest, most powerful nation in the world, we can handle our own. We don't need some international court to tell us what our soldiers did wrong when the vast majority of those countries won't even send their own troops in to do the job. It could turn into a witch hunt, if say, there was an unpopular war that europe didn't agree with. Europe could get back at the US by convicting our soldiers of war crimes, even after the US had an investigation and cleared them, or even punished them, if the ICC didn't think the punishment fit the 'crime'.
So all I have left to say to the ICC and those in favor of it, is to...well, I'm not going to say it, but I'm sure you can infer what I want to say, something about shoving. I'm glad this country isn't run by a bunch of pusses who bow to the wills of the international community.
When a superpower does what lesser nations want her to do, just to please them, she looses her power, just as the lesser nations want her to do.
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