Because this treaty is flawed in more ways than one - for example, it outlaws land mines
However, if a real case we agreed with came along - we may just consent to jurisdiction
United States on Wednesday threatened to withdraw from U.N. peacekeeping missions if its troops were not exempted from the reach of a new global criminal court.
and what doest Vietnam have anything to do with it?
The court is not retroactive. No crime committed before July 1 can be prosecuted by the tribunal when it begins functioning in The Hague ( news - web sites), Netherlands, sometime next year.
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