We need an international military force to be effective when peaceful measures fail. We need an international criminal court to deter future offenders. We need clear rules stipulating when the world community may lawfully intervene to stop large-scale atrocities. The international force called for by the United Nations Charter was never created. A new criminal court is being formed, but the president has failed to sign the treaty, which remains nonbinding without Senate ratification.
Law is always better than war.
The writer was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials. All rights reserved.