the world court

     Perhaps the next time the United States catches an international criminal, we'll actually turn him over to the World Court for trial--the same way we expect everyone else to do.  The most famous recent trials in the World Court were those of the war criminals from Eastern Europe, but all kinds of international disputes are settled there. A court has the authority that people grant it, one way and another, and the United States has persistently refused to grant the World Court any jurisdiction over itself, although it has conceded that it might be useful to other people. We can and should do better.