The I. C. C. (International Criminal Court) should try American war criminals for war crimes.

Firstly, I appreciate that the opposition is taking a logical position on this matter, Instead of simply taking a typical Neo-con style narrative argument where the sole contents of the passages is to fear monger about a nation that is considered within in the boundaries of either the "Axis of Evil, "Beyond the Axis of Evil", Or the Latin American "troika of tyranny". Regardless, All three points given instead of that propaganda are all flawed (in my opinion). The first claims that the U. S. Should not be party to the International Criminal Court solely due to some sort of decimation of the courts legitimacy after having such a powerful, Imperialist nation rest in the Netherlands alongside the existing members. While this of course is current practice in the existing institutions, Only an independently minded President, With an independently minded Department of Justice, With an independently minded Federal Bureau of Investigation would permit the recognition of such a "radical" body to even enter mainstream political dialogue. This reformed executive branch would not be the kind to hijack a international body to anything above a minimal extent. This scenarios implementation is heavily unlikely, And could be dismissed due to it currently not fitting on any centralized Overton Window, But the same could have been said about proposals made by revolutionaries who fought for justice in the 19th century for the abolition of slavery, And for what are commonly perceived as standard workers protections. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, The Civil Rights Movement, Space exploration, And the current left wing prepositions suggested by Bernie Sanders were at first deemed as insane when they were first flirted. Since we both acknowledge the crimes of this nation, We should not dismiss the idea of justice for those who have committed these atrocities. Americans are told that no one resting on their soil is above the law, And that sadly is not true at this moment. As you present largely the same argument in the second passage, We can move on to the third. I would actually much prefer the indictment and prosecution of American war criminals to occur on U. S. Soil, And due to the recent convictions that the Mueller probe has normalized I believe that could be possible following a certain social and cultural transitional period where the people fully examine and look back and judge properly. Unfortunately, Their is a very high chance that regardless of what leads up to such criminal convictions, The next president could simply pardon all of the felons at any point in their administration. This can be seen with the Iran-Contra scandal, Where many people who were punished for their acts under the Reagan administration were simply pardoned or granted clemency during George HW Bush's tenure and some even promoted back into government later on (Elliott Abrams is one example). It appears that you are a very well educated individual, Simply taking the inevitable realist position. I, For one often reject common political norms and some of those political positions I held may indeed be doomed to succeed as you'd say. I still feel proper cases have a right to be made, Even if they will quickly find themselves in the ash heap of history.