Thursday, June 20, 2002

U.S. Threatens U.N. Peacekeeping Over New Court

Not really. The US is just saying it won't participate in peacekeeping missions unless American citizens are given immunity from prosecution in the International Criminal Court. Everybody else is welcome to peacekeep all they want. There's nothing really new about the American stance, except we're clarifying that we aren't going to participate in the court and we won't put our citizens in danger from it. (As Steven den Beste has said on a couple of occasions, we probably can't participate; that sort of surrender of our sovereignity is likely unconstitutional.) Obviously, if the UN is going to go around arresting people and sending them to this court, we aren't going to put our soldiers and civilians in UN hands.

Read the story anyway, it's a nice example of high-camp Reuterian internationalism.

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