And the US government "could have" chosen not to pursue any of the wars and covert actions that it did pursue in its history. "Could have" only in theory (theory in the pejorative sense of the word), though. The actual course of US action in Rwanda makes sense, as it had its proxy in the RPA; UN peacekeepers would have been in their way.
BTW, I wasn't talking about what the US government "could have" done. I was talking about what US leftists "could have" done (again only in theory -- theory in the pejorative sense of the word). Not the same thing. -- Yoshie
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