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I Think The International Criminal Court Could Be A Threat To American Security Interests, Because The Prosecutor Of The Court Has Enormous Discretion In Going After War Crimes. And The Way The Statute Of Rome Is Written, Responsibility For War Crimes Can Be Taken All The Way Up The Chain Of Command. This Is The Sort Of Investigation That Some People Who Live In Fairyland Might Like To Undertake, But Which Bears No Relationship At All To Conditions In The Real World.

Texas Is A Big State. It's A Major Force In The Republican Party.

The Solution To North Korea Is The Reunification Of The Korean Peninsula. China Could Influence The North; It Supplies 80 To 90 Percent Of North Korea's Energy. The United States Have To Put Pressure On China In Order For China To Pressure North Korea.

I'm Not Saying That You Need A State Department That Looks Like The Litigation Department Of A Major Law Firm. But You Need People Who Are Not Afraid To Make The Case For The United States, Who Are Not Afraid To Stand Their Ground, Not Afraid To Be Isolated In International Organizations When That's The Correct Approach For Our Diplomacy. This Is A Cultural Change That Has To Be Effected Through Incentive Systems, Promotion Systems, Career Training Systems. This Is Not Something That You Can Do With The Stroke Of A Magic Wand, It's Going To Take Years To Make This Change.

The International Criminal Court Uses A Prosecution-only Approach. And By Putting Their Fate In The Hands Of Outsiders, Countries Are Really Dodging Responsibility For Actions Taken In The Name Of That Country, In The Name Of The People In That Country, By The People Of That Country Themselves. That Is, I Think, Fundamentally The Wrong Direction To Go In.