Here is a potentially big foreign policy change from the Bush administration to the Obama administration: the U.S. will have an ambassador at the upcoming International Criminal Court conference, reports the Washington Post’s Colum Lynch.  With three weeks left in office, Bill Clinton signed a treaty that created the court. George W. Bush then declared that his administration wouldn’t participate in any war tribunal.

Maybe there are reasons for the U.S. to be reluctant about diving into ICC. But if America had been involved from the start, we might now have an appropriate venue to try Guantanamo detainees and other terrorist suspects.

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