That is why I understand clearly the worries that the United States has. Perhaps I am expressing some of those concerns when I express my serious concerns about the Bill, and my hope that we can make sufficient improvements to it in Committee to overcome them. For obvious and genuine reasons, the concern tends to be articulated most spiritedly in relation to our own armed forces and to those of the United States. The possibility that they might find themselves arraigned before the International Criminal Court in circumstances that we would think were thoroughly unjust is a genuine concern. When one is dealing with international war and peace, one is dealing with very difficult issues.
Terrible decisions have to be made in the context of international law.
Although perhaps 90 per cent. I was Solicitor-General at the time of the Iraq war, when we were bombing Iraq in a formidable way. I could sympathise with the present Government when they had to deal with the difficult questions of Kosovo and of international law that underlay the bombing of Yugoslavia in the recent Kosovo war. I mentioned in my intervention on my right hon. When it comes to the use of nuclear weapons, one is on very difficult ground indeed, particularly internationally.