Just Deserts

When Bush declined to join the International Criminal Court the excuse was that uppity little countries would use the court to harass the US. What they didn't say was that by avoiding the ICC it class the US with other rogue regimes around the world. The 1984 Convention against Torture obligates the signatories to prosecute individuals responsible for acts of torture if they are present in their territory. So it should have been expected that the French would have no choice but to charge Donald Rumsfeld when he landed in France. It will be interesting to see where this goes.