International law threatens U.S.

The administration has always been afraid of international law. Chertoff expressed that fear yesterday:

Nov 17, 2006 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Bush administration official on Friday said the European Union, the United Nations and other international entities increasingly are using international law to challenge U.S. powers to reject treaties and protect itself from attack.

"International law is being used as a rhetorical weapon against us," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, a former federal appellate judge, said in a speech to the Federalist Society, a conservative policy group.

Chertoff cited members of the European Parliament in particular as harboring an "increasingly activist, left-wing and even elitist philosophy of law" at odds with American practices and interests.

I've always found it a bit duplicitous that we helped to create the idea of international law when we wanted to try Germans for war crimes after World War II, but we don't want to subject ourselves to it for fear our leaders will be tried for war crimes.

The best way not to get tried for war crimes is to not commit them.