[Pox]

The rule of law is not anti-american!

Our civilization functions under the "rule of law", so your statement is an axiom.

It is a set of rules that are FAIR and Americans should not be afraid of it!

Wrong. The ICC is not covered under our constitution and to defer to it is to toss our sovereignty out the window.

A war-crime is a war-crime independent of who does it.

I choose my own country to determine such a classification any day in eternity versus giving that task to communists/socialists/liberals/progressives/dictators/etc from other countries. We already have a hard enough time functioning with those types in our own country.

The benefits of an american support to the ICC will be far larger then the negative consequences

Wrong. Specify the benefits please. To Subscribe to the ICC's jurisdiction is to relinquish our sovereignty to a foreign body, and that is Unconstitutional, IMO.

[Kurt_Hectic]

"a war crime is a war crime..." : The rule of law between nations has been a legal fact since Hugo Grotius wrote his "De Jure Belli ac Pacis" in 1625. It applies for all the countries in the world with no exception. And because it's a body of law it stands above politics. The classification of war-crimes can thus never be handed over to dictators and communists. This is a task for the international jurist-community.

Just because the USA doesn't recognize the ICC doesn't mean your country isn't regulated by the international law. The difference between national and interational law is that international law can't be enforced the same way national law can. But with the ICC we can have such a instrument.

As for the benefits of american support to the ICC: The court could be houndred-fold more effective. Then we could use the court to go after the REAL war-criminals: goverments and organisations who aid and support terrorists in the middle east and asia.