For which the Economist argues > But if conventions are worded with unusual broadness, they must also be used with special care. Until now, America’s State Dep

For which the Economist argues > But if conventions are worded with unusual broadness, they must also be used with special care. Until now, America’s State Department had applied the “genocide” label only to mass slaughter, and even then it often hesitated, for fear that uttering the term would create an expectation that it would intervene. It did not call Rwanda’s genocide a genocide until it was practically over.