Anti-Americans love to focus on the refusal, by successive U.S. administrations, to sign up to the International Criminal Court. How arrogant! How chauvinist! How backward-looking! But, all of a sudden, America is starting to look like a trend-setter. Gambia has just followed South Africa and Burundi in withdrawing from the ICC’s jurisdiction, and a mass walk-out by African states is now on the cards.

The people who decry Americans as isolationist cowboys are, oddly, keeping quiet about this exodus. Why? Because the departing African states know exactly which buttons to press with liberals. Here is how Gambia justified itself last week: “The ICC, despite being called International Criminal Court, is in fact an International Caucasian Court for the persecution and humiliation of people of color, especially Africans.”