Regarding the ICC
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/02/qa- ... d-states#2
Ad also under the Trump administration, Trump threatened any member of the ICC who would investigate any war crimes against America.
these two questions and answers from the FAQ are interesting
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6. Hasn’t the US already investigated alleged abuses by US military and CIA personnel in Afghanistan?
The US has conducted some investigations into alleged abuses by US personnel in Afghanistan, but they were limited in scope. In 2009, the US Department of Justice opened an investigation into 101 cases of alleged detainee abuse by the CIA, including the cases of two detainees who died in CIA custody, but no charges were brought. Human Rights Watch found no evidence that the investigators interviewed any victims of CIA torture. Moreover, the investigation was limited to abuses that went beyond the interrogation methods authorized by the Justice Department. Many of the authorized techniques were abusive – some clearly amounting to torture – and should have been included. A 2014 report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that the CIA covered up its crimes, including by making false claims to the Justice Department. The 6,700-page Senate report remains classified, but a redacted version of the 525-page summary shows that abusive CIA interrogation methods were far more brutal, systematic, and widespread than previously reported.
It is harder to evaluate the extent to which torture by the US military in Afghanistan has been investigated and prosecuted. In 2015, the United States reported to the UN Committee Against Torture that the armed forces had begun 70 investigations into detainee abuse that resulted in trial by courts-martial, but no time period was provided, and no further information was publicly available.
7. What has been the US relationship with the ICC?
In the early years of the ICC, the George W. Bush administration led a hostile campaign against the court. For instance, the Bush administration pressured governments around the world to enter into bilateral agreements requiring them not to surrender US nationals to the ICC. But these efforts did little more than erode US credibility on international justice and gradually gave way to a more supportive US posture, starting in 2005. The US did not veto a UN Security Council request to the ICC prosecutor to investigate crimes in Darfur, Sudan in 2005 and it voted for the UN Security Council referral of the situation in Libya to the court in 2011.
US support was critical in the transfer to the court of ICC suspects Bosco Ntaganda, a Congolese rebel leader, in 2012 and Dominic Ongwen, a Lord’s Resistance Army commander, in 2015. In 2013, the US Congress expanded its existing war crimes rewards program to provide rewards to people providing information to facilitate the arrest of foreign individuals wanted by any international court or tribunal, including the ICC.
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I think if America had joined the ICC, there probably would be a lot more investigations, and trials of war crimes and torture etc.
The problem is, from a none American point of view, it seems that america has made a fair amount of mistakes in the past
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U ... sh_victims
List of U.S. friendly-fire incidents since 1945 with British victims
But that is only for US friendly fire against British armed forces, which is a lot of incidents there already. But add on those against civilian targets, and other countries, I'm sure the list of friendly fire, would be a lot higher.
But then again, I still say that the war on Afghanistan, was a huge mistake, and still is a huge mistake. and we left it as a huge mistake. And American is responsible for that. But in the end, I don't think we will really see how many mistakes America has made, because its its refusal to join the ICC. I think if they do, then America will be shocked by its own.