Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the United States is launching an effort to dismantle the threat the International Criminal Court poses to American sovereignty. The ICC, Rubio correctly argues, claims authority to prosecute and imprison American servicemen and officials despite the incontrovertible fact that the United States is not a member.
“If we stand idle, all of them will be at the mercy of foreign judges, thousands of miles away,” Rubio said of U.S. servicemen and agents facing constant risk of prosecution, and even imprisonment, for the so-called crime of defending their own country. President Donald Trump has twice sanctioned the ICC, calling it an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to American national security.
