by Patrick J. Buchanan – July 9, 2002

Call it the Independence Day capitulation or July Fourth surrender.

Forty-eight hours after handing the U.N. an ultimatum – either U.S. troops get immunity from the International Criminal Court, or we veto the U.N. mission in Bosnia – President Bush backed down. The globalists called our bluff, and America threw in its hand.

Hours before the capitulation, the president was a portrait in patriotic defiance. “As the United States works to bring peace around the world, our diplomats and our soldiers could be drug into court.” U.N. Ambassador John Negroponte echoed Bush: “We are and will remain a special target (of the ICC), and we cannot have our decisions second-guessed by a court whose jurisdiction we do not recognize.”