A permanent International Criminal Court is such a bad idea that only a dome-pated State Department bureaucrat could possibly be in favor of it. Already accountable under U.S. military law, those officers would be placed in double jeopardy by jurists drawn in part from dictatorships, nondemocratic states, and countries with a weak rule of law. Summers sees this proposal as but the latest phase of an ongoing campaign to undermine our military strength.
Summers foresees the legal temper of the attorney watering down the warrior spirit of the soldier.
That is especially true today, as the technologies of the Information Age . . . have enormously increased the tempo of combat. Instead of arms-control talks with our adversaries, Harry Summers might prefer negotiations to reduce the growing stockpiles of attorneys. It's only natural to assume that the U.S. State Department represents the interests of the United States, since this is, of course, what it is supposed to do. Behind The Headlines is syndicated to newspapers and radio stations, free of charge, by America's Future, a nonprofit educational organization founded in 1946 and dedicated to the preservation of our free-enterprise system and our constitutional form of government.