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The United States itself does not respect international law and does not permit its soldiers to be prosecuted in the ICJ under any circumstances. Therefore there is no reason to afford it any similar consideration.

International law is largely a myth due to the extreme power differential between the United States and most other countries. The only hard and fast rule is that might makes right.

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The ICJ handles dispute between states. It has no authority to prosecute the soldiers of any country.

You are, perhaps, referring to the ICC, established by the Rome Statute - to which the United States is not a party.

The issue of whether the United States respects international law is not likely to be conducive to productive conversation on HN. It is also beside the point of this specific topic.

its not productive conversation with any american, as you are all brainwashed anyways by your corrupt government and media. As far as I'm concerned any american is complicit in war crimes.

Please don't post flamebait here or engage in nationalistic flamewars. Yes there are huge challenges to conversation across deep divides—but the site guidelines require that we make good-faith efforts to overcoming those challenges or—if you can't or don't want to do that—simply not to post.

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