He added: "It would be better not to try anyone than to try some and leave others at large".
Hamstrung by the misguided recalcitrance of major powers, the International Criminal Court is still not authorized to try anyone for the crime of aggression.
At a minimum, his government must be ready to arrest and try anyone involved in the attacks, and mete out long jail terms if they are convicted.
As someone with a frankly promiscuous attitude towards writers (I'll try anyone once), I always find myself asking the same question: am I really expected to read everything they've written?
But the seven-member panel threw out almost all the charges levelled against him, since they pre-dated Britain's adoption of an international law allowing any nation to try anyone accused of torture.
The Constitution cannot countenance an open-ended Presidential power, with no civilian review whatsoever, to try anyone the President deems subject to a military tribunal, whose rules and judges have been selected by the prosecuting authority itself".
