Joshua Keating — Why John Bolton Is So Obsessed With the International Criminal Court

Summary:
The impetus for the current U.S. offensive against the ICC is that its judges are currently considering whether to authorize the prosecutor to investigate alleged war crimes committed in Afghanistan, including by the U.S. military and the CIA. The potential scenario of Americans being prosecuted by an international court for crimes committed abroad is exactly the scenario Bolton and other opponents warned about in the court’s early days. The US is against anything and anybody it does not control.While liberalism is based on rationality as the chief characteristic of humans, the US acts based on dominance and submission, which is is an instinctual evolutionary trait characteristic of brutes.The result is a loss of soft power based on the US being perceived as the beacon of

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