not to the uninitiated, but it is another indication of our racism. is it a country or is it a continent? yeah, you can send someone from khartoum to somalia, and they'll fit in just right. but here we have this absurd situation, and it undermines everything. those of you in this room who are old enough to remember the cold war will know that we soaz sid up -- cozied up to and propped up less than pleasant dictatorships in our war against communism. and i'm afraid we're back, we're back to the same thing now. your question, where does it leave the icc? >> well, the icc, i mean, do you see it actually moving forward in terms of prosecution, and also just in terms of accountability for human rights violations, what can we expect in that region? >> well, the problem is that, you know f we actually do vote for article 16, then, basically, we're saying that's carte blanche to anybody to do what they want. and it's really hard to know where we go forward from that if there is no accountability f there is no justice -- if there is no justice. you begin to wo