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Bad Neighbors.(US policy on the International Criminal Court)
American Prospect, The, August, 2001 by Cassel, Doug
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An international court that exempted U.S. citizens would not sit well with other nations.
BILL PASSED BY THE HOUSE in May--mislabeled the "American Servicemembers Protection Act"--seeks to achieve by intimidation what the United States could not get by negotiation: a blanket exemption for Americans from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
In 1998 a UN diplomatic conference in Rome agreed to the ICC treaty, which has since been signed by 139 countries and has acquired 36 of 60 necessary ratifications, with ...
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