The "international" Court Affair

The United States expressed concern on Friday over South Africa’s decision to withdraw its support from the International Criminal Court.

The ICC, set up in 2002, has often struggled with a lack of international cooperation, including from the United States, which has signed the court’s treaty but never ratified it.

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While not itself a member of the court, the United States likes other countries to accept its jurisdiction, seeing it as an arm against the impunity sometimes enjoyed by rogue leaders.

  Vanguard

How rich.

“We’re concerned about this decision,” State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters.

“We do think that the ICC has made valuable contributions in the service of accountability in a number of situations and we hope that other governments would share that.”

Simply amazing.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.