On America's double standard: the good and bad faces of exceptionalism.(Double Standards)
American Prospect, The, October, 2004 by Koh, Harold Hongju
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WHEN THE UNITED STATES HOLDS TALIBAN detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without Geneva Convention hearings, then decries the failure of others to accord Geneva Convention protections to their American prisoners, it supports a double standard. When George W. Bush tries to "unsign" the International Criminal Court (ICC) treaty that Bill Clinton signed in 2000, yet expects other nations to honor signed treaties, he does the same.
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