We see now why the US has gone to such great lengths to cripple the International Criminal Court.
The objections have never been about trumped up charges wasting the court's time and resources, allowing it to indulge (or to be used to indulge) a cheap and easy anti-Americanism. Instead, this is what our praetorians and their bosses were always afraid of, the day when an American should stand up in the dock to receive the sentence: guilty of crimes against humanity.
(I happen to be opposed to the ICC, but that discussion is for another time when I'm not feeling quite so ill.)
Posted by Martial