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Very true, and after Durban, I don't think anyone can expect the ICC to be anything but (at best) a powerless "feel good" farce, and at worst the main force for tyranny to come along in quite a few decades.

I doubt it will last long. The first time it takes away a popular political leader or politician will be its last. Milosovic was not popular with the Serbs because he was a hardline Socialist in a nation that wanted free elections and a more capitalistic economy. Wait till they take an Ariel Sharon away. They would be so lucky if an extremely bloody operation to extract him from the ICC was the worst thing that happens to them. I could see WWIII being brought about by the ICC more easily than I could by the Middle East. The first time an American, Russian or Chinese President is arrested in Europe and taken to the ICC will be the time when the bulk of Europe gets a feel for just how great the military power distance is between a pissant socialist state and a superpower.