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Despite the stringent security, the court??s building in The Hague is unimpressive. Hours of listening to evidence against a few Serbian men who allegedly murdered several Bosnian-Muslim families makes one believe that the dream of international justice is possible...
However, the defendants hope to kill that dream. The current defenses of Bagosora and Milosovic seem to be torn from the same page. They both have chosen to impede the court??s proceedings by attacking its legitimacy. And their defense may be working. Bagosora and Milosovic have found the Achilles’ heel by playing right into Western insecurities about international authority over sovereign nations and their leaders. Take away their names, adjust a few statistics, and one could be looking at a pro-Western general and politician...
...Kenny Hulshof (R-Mo.) has taken to calling the 2011 expiration the “largest tax increase” in American history. The whole scheme brings to mind the traditional example of chutzpah—the murderer who kills his parents and then asks for the court??s mercy as an orphan...
Rather than opposing the court??s formation, America should be the 67th country to ratify the ICC and participate in its development. This would send a clear message that the United States lives by the same rules as everyone else, while at the same time allowing America’s voice to be considered as the nascent international institution grows. The ICC itself will institutionalize the prosecution of war criminals and dictators, eliminating the need for the various ad hoc tribunals that have tried leaders like Slobodan Milosevic. Yet the White House flatly refused to send the treaty...
...Bush administration worries that the court will compromise America’s national sovereignty. Yet this concern is completely misplaced for a country like the United States, which has a fair and established judicial system based on the rule of law. The court??s role is to step in when national institutions fail to bring to justice those responsible for war crimes or crimes against humanity within their borders. Perhaps Bush is more worried about America’s prerogative to try and convict terrorists on its own terms rather than in an international setting guided...