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I agree with that in principle... if you look at the worlds superpowes...
The US, Russia, and China have all been responsible for breaches of international law in regards to human rights. No one from one of these states will be up in front of the ICC.
I do not deny that - as an example - Charles Taylor is a crook, and probably has blood on his hands. But violence is in fact practised internally and externally by almost every state to some degree or another.
Does anyone think Putin is going to have to answer to anyone for Russia's actions in Georgia? Bush or Obama for the abuse of human rights in that internment camp in Cuba or for civilian casualties in Iraq? Will King Abdullah have to answer for civil righst abuses and state sponsored violence in Saudi? Will Netanyahu have to answer for attacks on Gaza?
We can answer clearly: no, no, no, no.
Given that we now can suspect there were plans to try Charles Taylor in the US if the ICC didnt find him guilty... how seriously can we take it, other than as a Western tool to force compliance to Western ideals/trade from poorer countries?
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But despite all of that... Taylor is a bad guy. No one could doubt that.
The question does remain I think, is it right to let bad guys slink off into the night to live in exile to prevent civil unrest?
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