The international community's failure to intervene in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide is often held up as one of the great failures of the United Nations, and of the international community at large. Hindsight, though, is 20/20, and now after two failed interventions in the Middle East, and apprehension over a looming third, the question presents itself: What if we had intervened in Rwanda?
(I'm going to refrain from stating my personal opinion in the OP, to prevent the discussion from being slanted in either direction from the start.)
(I'm going to refrain from stating my personal opinion in the OP, to prevent the discussion from being slanted in either direction from the start.)