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Strategy for U.S. Engagement with the International Criminal Court

David Scheffer

出版	Century Foundation, 2008
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dSGKAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The ICC remains a contentious issue in policy circles and a largely unspoken one among the general public. Therefore, any strategy that seeks to shift the United States into a closer relationship with the ICC entails risks and uncertainties that can be resolved only through a reduction in rhetoric and a better understanding of the ICC. The benefits of support of the ICC far outweigh the presumed costs, particularly in American credibility and leadership in its foreign policy and its commitment to the rule of law globally. This is especially true for the U.S. Armed Forces, which have far more to gain from participating in bringing leading perpetrators of atrocity crimes to justice than from continued U.S. opposition to the ICC and absence from its vital work. Maintaining the status quo would only strengthen the will of atrocity lords to act with impunity and endanger the lives of U.S. service personnel sent abroad to stop their carnage and restore the peace.