Armed Liberal

Mike Kielsky has a good post about the ICC (International Criminal Court) in Uncommon Sense, his blog. Like me, he's against it. He puts it well:

Personally, I couldn't care less whether we'd have to go invade the Netherlands, Nepal, or New Zealand. If one of OURS is being prosecuted by a politicized court composed of members primarily from nations with anti-U.S. views, then so be it.

I say this with straight face, because I can quickly dismiss the legitimacy of a war crimes complaint issued by a brutal dictatorship, but this court cannot. As organized, it will be skillfully manipulated by those governments opposed to true freedom and justice within and without their own borders, just as the U.N. finds itself so manipulated.

I once described myself to someone as having the politics of "Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, and Harry Truman having been run through a Cuisinart". One of the core things our government should do is protect our citizens abroad from threat and violence.

I think Instapundit also put it well: "Kill an American, and you're toast." I have zero problems with that policy.