Introduction The ICC is a permanent, independent court with the mandate to try people accused of very serious crimes of global concern, namely war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The basis of this court is a treaty by 108 countries (18th July 2008). The breakdown indicates thirty African states, fourteen Asian, sixteen from Eastern Europe twenty-three from the Caribbean and Latin America, and twenty-five from the Western part of Europe as well as other states. Nevertheless, cases are forwarded to the ICC only as a last resort. Thus it will not exercise its authority in cases either prosecuted or investigated by any national judicial process unless the proceedings instituted are not just and genuine. The ICC observes only the highest fairness standards as well as due process. The basis of the functioning and jurisdiction of the ICC is the Rome Statute. The Position of the United States To a discernible extent, the US feels threatened, yet as stated above, the Rome Statute wholly protects self-policing and self-regulation in a mature democracy. Time and again, the government of the United States has opposed an international judicial system that could subject the US political and military leaders to a global, uniform justice standard. This is reminiscent of the negotiations between the ICC treaty and the Clinton administration fighting for Security Council case screening. The adoption of this clause would have allowed the United States to veto dockets it was against. When other nations disagreed with this unequal judicial standard, the United States began a campaign to weaken as well as undermine the ICC. The Bush administration then stepped up its discontent with very strong opposition. Negotiation of bilateral agreements between Washington and other countries began, to secure immunity to US nationals when taken to the ICC. As leverage, the US administration threatened to terminate economic aid, along with the withdrawal of its significant military assistance. The painful fact is that these exclusionary and painful measures endanger the International Criminal Court, seriously weakening its effectiveness and credibility. By extension, the United States seems to exempt itself from rules it believes must apply to other nations. The clamor for special status seriously undermines the principle of rule of law as one, a principled normative structure that binds all. Worse still, it undermines the intense international effort carried through from the last few decades to subject the application of force to the rule of law. The irony of the matter is that in comparison to other modern states, the United States has considered itself as not only constituted by but also committed to the rule of law. (Kahn, 2003). Defenders of this position argue that no country pours resources into defense structures the way the US does. The US funds its military for use as a national instrument policy. The cases of Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan depict this. Naturally, with the deployment of armies, follows large-scale aggression charges as well as humanitarian law violations. This resonates with the argument on political psychology. The US suffers from some form of political paranoia or said differently, a latent inclination to xenophobia. The view here is that opposition is essentially the product of right-wing hallucinations and so