>>What if it's not [negotiable]?.....
>But that's something that has to be EXPERIENCED, not assumed. Especially after the WMD debacle.
>When talk after talk after talk after talk after talk... have happened and there seems no resolution, then the "traditional" countermeasure of blockade, boycott, blacklist and belittle comes next.
*IF* that should result in some injury (i.e. attack) on one/some of the blockaders BY the blockaded, then measures like bombing can be contemplated.
Well lets hope Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not as mad as he seems. It may be a while yet for them to get a bomb anyway.
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