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So far, the Bush administration has taken an admirably tough stance in its refusal to cotton to the creation of the International Criminal Court. But its assurances yesterday that America would not pull out of peacekeeping operations in Bosnia — the threat of which the administration had used as leverage to demand immunity from ICC prosecutions — were an unwelcome sign that the president might not have the stomach to finish the fight. We’re not eager to see American troops pull out of anywhere, but in this case the move is likely to be interpreted as President Bush softening a position that Europe’s diplomatic class and the editors of the New York Times had derided as “reckless.”
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