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Sort of a side issue, but nonetheless significant, "France agreed to postpone a vote until Thursday after the United States said it wanted to amend the draft resolution to ensure that no Americans could be handed over to the court, the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal, U.N. diplomats said."

It's important because the UN, NATO and many other states we have alliances with always expect the USA to take lead military role whenever military action is deemed necessary. It would mean that Americans would end up facing more "war crimes" charges than anyone else, many of them frivolous.

Just look at the hypocrisy over Iraq. Nearly everyone agrees that Saddam was a butcher, a tyrant, a supporter of international terror and a human rights violator. But nobody did anything to take him out. When the USA decided he was a threat, the far left threw a conniption and called for war crimes charges be brought against Americans - but they never had a conniption over Saddam's gassing of 300,000 people, of his support for terror, of his multiple unprovoked attacks against sovereign states, etc and never called for him to face charges. We know the truth about these fools.

The UN and other countries must capitulate on this. If they want both an ICC and the USA taking the lead role in policing the world - which they do - then they have to absolve Americans from facing ICC charges. It's just that simple. They can't have their cake and eat it too.