HOUSTON, Texas 'An unprecedented movement has emerged to submit international politics to judicial procedures [and] has spread with extraordinary speed," Henry Kissinger observed a few years ago in a tone both despairing and disparaging. His fear is now being borne out for the world to see, with ex-President Augusto Pincochet of Chile, elements of the Sudanese government, and Congolese and Ugandan rebels all likely to be in line for prosecution later this year. As the East Timorese Nobel Prize laureate José Ramos-Horta once put it, "in this day and age you cannot kill hundreds of people, destroy a whole country...