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Originally posted by The_Dude
US is now dictating how countries make internal laws?? why dont we just go in there and run their country?
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It's not that simple, Dude. This law is *universal*, as in: some US bloke kills an Iraqi guy in Nepal, and he can be sued in Belgium. The consequences are rather silly. Sharon has been sued; Blair has been sued; Bush Sr, Bush Jr, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Powell and General Franks have been sued...
The law is a nice idea, but fails to take into account that there are extremists abusing it. In the case of the current US leadership, for example: they were sued by extreme-left guys and Arabic nationalists. These are obviously political cases, not criminal ones.
The result is that the US has said (justifiably) that it would no longer send any NATO personal to the NATO HQ, because they might be arrested upon arrival. The same goes for other US officials. Imagine President Bush being arrested by Belgian police... How long would it take your army to invade?
OTOH, US law-makers seem to feel they do have the power to apply their laws universally. A Dutch DJ was extradited to the US for selling some/a lot of XTC pills to some US users/traders in Amsterdam...