When the UK signed up to arrangements whereby British prisoners convicted in foreign countries could be sent home to serve most of their sentences in British prisons, it was on the understanding that foreign convictions would not be open to question and reassessment here.
The watchdogs called for police to make much better use of information about foreign convictions for rape - information which can be requested through Interpol.
Apart from a suspicion of trade agreements and a pledge to put America "first", it does not appear that Trump holds many firm foreign policy convictions.
In a separate case on Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether criminal convictions obtained in the courts of foreign countries count as convictions that make it illegal for a convicted felon to own a gun.
Their hostility toward the Administration is so consuming that it leaves little room for imaginative thinking about any alternative foreign policy beyond the conviction that, to paraphrase Kerry, we should be opening firehouses in New Orleans and closing them in Baghdad.
Mr Blair's neo-conservatism, they imply, may be purer and deeper than Mr Bush's.What distinguishes the neo-con approach to foreign policy is the conviction that, by and large, democracies don't go to war with each other; and that powerful countries have both an interest and a moral duty to increase the number of democratic governments in the world.
Many OECD nations have yet to win a single criminal conviction for foreign bribery, even though they have had anti-bribery laws on their books for a decade.
Counterterrorism Coördinator, says that, as of December, there had been "around ten convictions" of foreign fighters with European citizenship or residency.
This is of a piece with Hague's conviction that British foreign policy has to be less exclusively focused on Europe, the US and China.
As for conservatism today, Mr. Buckley said there was a growing debate on the right about how the war in Iraq squared with the traditional conservative conviction that American foreign policy should seek only to protect its vital interests.
