Assuming that the United States has no aspirations of undertaking a program of genocide or shielding its nationals who do, there is no reason, other than an anachronistic yearning for "absolute" sovereignty, for its stubborn resistance to the ICC. The Bush administration fluently and constantly speaks the language of moral clarity. If the United States truly wants to retain or perhaps, at this point, regain the respect of the world that it earned in the past, it should act with the same moral purpose that it did when prosecuting the perpetrators of the Holocaust or when leading the effort to establish the ICTY. The United States should not only accept the jurisdiction of the ICC; it should assume a leadership role, as it has in the past, to insure that the ICC is equipped with the authority and legitimacy to deter and if necessary to prosecute the world's most dangerous criminals.