Comment: We agree with this one; this is one of the few laws passed by the Bush administration that we have no qualms over. A sovereign nation can't have its soldiers tried in another country.
In 2002, Congress passed a law enabling United States forces to unilaterally storm into peaceful Holland to liberate American soldiers held for war crimes.
Coming in the early days of the war on terrorists, and as the International Criminal Court was being formed here, the measure provoked controversy and seemed to the Dutch – stout US allies – an absurd example of America's "with us or against us" foreign policy.
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