extensively on what you regard as the illegality of american military action in iraq. and i'm sure you've also look at afghanistan too, but none of that gets anywhere near the icc and the truth is that the biggest powers in the world — a whole host of countries... britain. ..they don't accept the legitimacy of the icc. britain and france do, and i think we have to give britain and france credit. they are both parties to the statute. russia and china and us are not. court, interestingly, does not attach only to nationality, so it attaches to territory. amazingly, afghanistan is a party to the icc statute and therefore, all the acts which may or may not be criminal that occurred, for example at bagram airbase with the alleged torture chambers, those fell within the jurisdiction from 2002 they have not been investigated. that's a serious problem. you say it's a serious problem. if you accept the glaring sort of failing of the international justice framework