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warch · 07-17-2002, 06:01 PM

Well, we are technically re-in this. There is a 12 month Security council deferral for peacekeeping troops. I really think this legal body will be of substance and prove to be a useful peacekeeping tool. It will take time, but I think this is a pretty important step and forum- an attempt beyond the UN security council- at global justice. If you have international, global policing forces, you need international, global devices for justice on more than an ad hoc, or nation to nation basis. And for it to be just and for it to function, the cops can't be above the law. But understandably the US wants no added restrictions on their powers and military choices.

And so they dance...

(Many US citizens, charged with crimes in other countries, have been tried,convicted,and are serving sentences under foreign laws- nations with processes quite different from the closely aligned Rome Treaty and US constitution. And the process outlined in the Rome Treaty is much more protective of individual rights, than a US military tribunal.)

07-17-2002, 06:01 PM	#18
warch lurkin old school Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Minnesota Posts: 2,796	Well, we are technically re-in this. There is a 12 month Security council deferral for peacekeeping troops. I really think this legal body will be of substance and prove to be a useful peacekeeping tool. It will take time, but I think this is a pretty important step and forum- an attempt beyond the UN security council- at global justice. If you have international, global policing forces, you need international, global devices for justice on more than an ad hoc, or nation to nation basis. And for it to be just and for it to function, the cops can't be above the law. But understandably the US wants no added restrictions on their powers and military choices. And so they dance... (Many US citizens, charged with crimes in other countries, have been tried,convicted,and are serving sentences under foreign laws- nations with processes quite different from the closely aligned Rome Treaty and US constitution. And the process outlined in the Rome Treaty is much more protective of individual rights, than a US military tribunal.) Last edited by warch; 07-17-2002 at 06:03 PM.