Is there any way that AFRICOM could've been established as the newest US regional command before 2007- by say 1998 in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, Great Lakes crisis & Bill Clinton's acknowledgment that the US had been wrong in not recognising & responding to the former ? What effects would an earlier AFRICOM have had for the continent as a whole, esp in festering troublespots like Liberia, Sierra Leone, DRC, Cote d'Ivoire, or Darfur ?