Why not?
Is the Court Of Human Rights a bad thing, then?

If you were a victim of human rights abuse, would you not be crying to these very organisations for justice?

The problem I find with much of the World today; and I'm sure I'll be accused of over-simplification, is the total lack of empathy people have. Right-wingers have a remarkable gift for it
It's easy (and comforting) for us to sit in our ivory, 1st World towers, and pass judgement on everything that does not conform to our idea of the World.
But the minute your home is broken into, or the second somebody drives into you, you'd be hot on the phone, getting the cops down there pronto.
Well, DougR, there are more innocent victims in this World, than the ones that would spring first to your mind (and mine, incidentally).

America, of course, has a right to defend it's own security.
Every state has.

But who should be allowed to get away with murder?
What if the State came and took you away some day, or a member of your family, (heaven forbid) confusing you, or them, with somebody else, or laying fantastic charges at your door?

This is the empathy I'm talking about, and just because it's not happening to you, does not mean that it doesn't take up the whole day for somebody else.

The innocents and victims on all sides have to have a voice.
Especially because you(or someone you know)may one day have need of the same avenues of recourse.