Backgrounder posted August 18, 2009 by Brett Schaefer, Steven Groves
The U.S. Should Not Join the International Criminal Court
The idea of establishing an international court to prosecute
serious international crimes--war crimes, crimes against humanity,
and genocide--has long held a special place in the hearts of human
rights activists and those hoping to hold perpetrators of terrible
crimes to account. In 1998, that idea became reality when the Rome
Statute of the…