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That we had such a great justice system that we didn't need to be a part of the ICC for the persecution of war crimes. Not that I'm a great fan of the ICC as it frequently will look like the victors using a "legal system" to punish the losers. On the other hand, there seems to be this collective blind spot in the American psyche that seems to think that the torture and/or murder of detainees by the American military and an unprovoked invasion of Iraq and deaths of hundreds of thousands innocent Iraqi's, the use of Argentinian/Chilean style "disappearances", and turning millions of innocent Iraqi's into refugees are an internal American issue. Most of the rest of the world thinks these things are war crimes, not a question of weather or not somebody committed perjury by being less than candid about his sexual peccidillos. Most of the world thinks that war crimes are a world issue, not an internal issue for the perpetrators.
