Chris Dodd: “I remind my colleagues that we are not voting on a resolution of ratification, nor are we being asked to endorse any one…”

“I remind my colleagues that we are not voting on a resolution of ratification, nor are we being asked to endorse any one proposal over another. Those questions will not be with us for several years, perhaps more. All we are being asked to do today is to lend our support to the basic proposition, affirmed at Nuremberg half a century ago, that when people commit crimes against the international order, they should expect to be brought to justice. Surely we can muster the courage, after all we have learned, to stand up for that basic principle. Our moment in history is before us. With the end of the cold war we have been given a gift that previous generations could only have dreamed of: the opportunity to leave our indelible mark on the future itself.”