The Nobel Peace Prize Has Become Hopelessly

I Haven't Given Up On The Possibility That Sweet Reason Will Prevail.

Just As The Security Council Was Largely Irrelevant To The Great Struggle Of The Last Half Of The Twentieth Century - Freedom Against Communism - So Too It Is Largely On The Sidelines In Our Contemporary Struggles Against International Terrorism And The Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

In The United States, There Is A Broadly Shared View That The U.n. Is One Of Many Potential Instruments To Advance U.s. Issues, And We Have To Decide Whether A Particular Issue Is Best Done Through The U.n. Or Best Done Through Some Other Mechanism.

I Think The International Criminal Court Could Be A Threat To American Security Interests, Because The Prosecutor Of The Court Has Enormous Discretion In Going After War Crimes.

The International Criminal Court Uses A Prosecution-only Approach. And By Putting Their Fate In The Hands Of Outsiders, Countries Are Really Dodging Responsibility For Actions Taken In The Name Of That Country, In The Name Of The People In That Country, By The People Of That Country Themselves. That Is, I Think, Fundamentally The Wrong Direction To Go In.