要么国际刑事法院停止其威胁，要么我们将终结国际刑事法院，”国务卿马尔科·卢比奥周五在美国制裁国际刑事法院时表示。
‘Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday as the U.S. sanctioned the International Criminal Court.
“我们将禁止与这个流氓法院进行交易，切断其资源。”
“We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources.”
此举实至名归。
The action is amply merited.
全球正义的梦想是崇高的，20世纪90年代设立全球法院的计划往往出于最善意的初衷。
The dream of global justice is noble, and plans for a global court in the 1990s often came with the best of intentions.
但即便当时，共和党人和民主党人也认识到，让外国法官取代美国法院的角色不会有好结果。
But even then, Republicans and Democrats recognized that letting foreign judges usurp the role of U.S. courts wouldn’t end well.
美国士兵和领导人应当受美国司法体系的管辖。
U.S. soldiers and leaders should answer to America’s judicial system.
这就是自治。
It’s called self-government.
华盛顿从未批准授权国际刑事法院的《罗马规约》，国会也禁止美国与其合作。
Washington never ratified the Rome Statute authorizing the ICC, and Congress has prohibited U.S. cooperation.
但这并未阻止国际刑事法院调查阿富汗的美军。
But that hasn’t stopped the ICC from investigating U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
最近，该法院的盟友威胁称将起诉特朗普总统、他的官员、美军或边境巡逻特工。
Lately the court’s allies threaten that it will prosecute President Trump, his officials, U.S. soldiers or Border Patrol agents.
在为国际刑事法院辩护之前，民主党人或许该考察一下它的记录。
Before defending the ICC, Democrats might consider its record.
在起诉方面，该法院总体效果不佳，从未兑现其宣称的目标。
On prosecutions, the court has been generally ineffective and never lived up to its billing.
更令人担忧的是，它染上了国际法律圈中司空见惯的政治偏见，导致其伦理崩溃。
More troubling, it acquired the political biases that are standard in international legal circles, leading it to ethical collapse.
不妨看看国际刑事法院首席检察官卡里姆·汗（2021-2026）的案例。
Consider the case of ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan (2021-26).
2024年，他被一名下属指控性侵，随后他突然中止对以色列领导人的调查，拒绝接受以色列的证据，并在CNN上宣布请求逮捕他们，这令其 own staff 感到震惊。
Accused of sexual assault by a subordinate in 2024, he shocked his own staff by suddenly cutting short the court’s investigation of Israeli leaders, declining to receive Israeli evidence, and announcing a request for their arrests on CNN.
随后，法院将针对汗先生的指控埋没了数月，直至这些专栏及少数其他媒体才将其曝光。
The court then buried the allegations against Mr. Khan for months until these columns and a few others brought them to the fore.
再加上卡塔尔提出“照顾”汗先生以处理以色列逮捕令的 allegations——双方均予以否认——国际刑事法院的案件已被玷污，无法挽回。
Throw in the allegation of an offer by Qatar to “look after” Mr. Khan concerning the Israeli arrest warrants—which both deny—and the ICC case has been marred beyond saving.
仅在拖延了两年多之后，法院才以“严重不当行为和严重违反职责”为由解雇了汗先生。
Only after more than two years of dithering did the court fire Mr. Khan for “serious misconduct and serious breach of duty.”
他否认这些指控。
He denies the allegations.
Mr.卢比奥的声明仅讨论了美国，但批评者会说美国的制裁完全是为了以色列。
Mr. Rubio’s statement discussed only America, but critics will say the U.S. sanctions are all about Israel.
他们忽视了国际刑事法院（ICC）在以色列问题上愿意歪曲其程序、为政治目的扭曲法律和事实、超越其法律权威的意愿——就像美国一样，以色列也从未加入该法院——这才是法院对美国日益增长的危害的最佳证明。
They miss that the ICC’s willingness to pervert its process, twist the law and facts for political ends, and exceed its legal authority in the case of Israel—which, like the U.S., never joined the court—is the best demonstration of the court’s growing danger to America.
这包括美国对恐怖分子发动战争的能力。
This includes the ability of the U.S. to wage war against terrorists.
我们早在2025年1月就首次主张对国际刑事法院整体实施制裁。
We first advocated sanctioning the ICC as a whole in January 2025.
但特朗普政府更倾向于逐步推进，为法院提供每一次机会，让其放弃对非成员国的调查或起诉——当然，更不会针对那些拥有正常运作的民主制度和法律体系的国家。
But the Trump Administration preferred to proceed incrementally, offering the court every chance to give up on investigating or prosecuting nonmembers—and certainly not those with functioning democracies and legal systems.
法院并未让步。
It didn’t budge.
即便如今，卢比奥先生落下制裁的铁锤，他仍在为国际刑事法院提供许多制裁的180天宽限期，以便其“解决美国的根本关切”。
Even now, as Mr. Rubio drops the hammer, he’s still giving the ICC an 180-day grace period on many of the sanctions for it to “address fundamental U.S. concerns.”
更可能的是，国际刑事法院将利用这些月份，就像过去21个月那样——拖延时间，以耗尽特朗普总统任期的剩余时光。
More likely, the ICC will use these months as it used the past 21 months—to run out more of the clock on the Trump Presidency.
欧盟委员会已承诺帮助法院继续运作，这很可能包括为规避美国制裁做准备。
The European Commission has pledged to help the court continue operations, which will probably include preparing to evade U.S. sanctions.
如果特朗普先生和卢比奥先生行动太迟，国际刑事法院将会超越他们并寻求报复。
If Messrs. Trump and Rubio leave this too late, the ICC will outlast them and seek revenge.