Most certainly he would not have permitted American-led military intervention on one side in a war where the U.S. has no military or security interest.
Despite their rush to buy supplies today, most customers seemed calm about the possibility of an American-led military intervention.
The challenges facing Afghanistan are enormous, but with luck and continued international cooperation, this is one American-led intervention that could wind up actually making people's lives better.
Now, he reports from a country still at war eight years after the American-led intervention in 2001, and asks how things went wrong.
The United Nations, having taken responsibility for the American-led intervention, naturally preferred to have a government to which it could hand over authority.
Foreign policy experts and officials said the attack would create intense pressures on the Government to oppose the American-led intervention in Yugoslavia more forcefully.
But if an American-led intervention succeeded, the country's oil revenues could once again enrich its people, as well as its schools, hospitals and financial institutions.
Sudan Relief agencies warn of a disaster on a scale of that seen in Somalia before the American-led intervention.
The earlier, American-led intervention ordered by President George Bush was limited to humanitarian relief.
There, both the goals of an American-led intervention and the level of commitment appear more difficult to determine beforehand.