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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (95773)4/23/2003 2:06:49 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
. . . then the ICC claims jurisdiction and it is purely a matter of discretion on the part of the ICC prosecutor. (If neither party is a signatory, then the prosecutor needs a majority vote from the UNSC)

That's not my point. It would have been understandable had the Bush administration made precisely that point and then entered into serious negotiations as to how that could be corrected. Instead, they use these sorts of things as excuses to opt out of things like the ICC.

I have little doubt that the manner of their dropping out of Kyoto and the ICC and the remainder of the various multilateral arrangements will be one of several issues of deleterious soft power use that will come back to haunt this administration. Hopefully, but not with much any longer, it will not damage the country as a whole too much. I keep remembering one of tek's comments about all this which was, and this was well before the Iraq imbroglios, that the damage was easily repairable. Doesn't look like that argument can be made today.
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