New Dredd City

To complain and reject international judgements is used to be the exclusive area for countries like China, the U.S.S.R., Romania and Pinochet’s Chile. The U.S. used to tell these countries, well, not Pinochet so much, that the rest of the world is right and they are wrong. Now, increasingly these countries have become better international citizens in the last decades of two. Maybe the U.S. is sensing a vacuum being created in the world, they has been trying very hard to fill it, punishing good people along the way. As more and more countries are ratifying the creation of the International Criminal Court, the U.S. is doing everything it can to stop it. It makes one wonder why they are doing it. It can’t be that they know that they have committed some international crimes. It cannot be. The world police committed crime? They can’t possibly be afraid of the law, can they? It must be that they have policed the world so why there is no need for courts anymore. After all that is the country ruled by law, they would not think of living above the law themselves. I must therefore come to the conclusion that the U.S. is scarifying itself to play the bad guys so good has a reason to exist. Now, that is heroic.