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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: RMF who wrote (48453)7/11/2013 2:25:53 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 85487
 
>> We should just have told el Baradei to go F*** himself and gone STRAIGHT to the Iranians and talked things out.

You couldn't talk to them. The Brits were trying to talk with them and their negotiating positions were insane.

This just isn't how these things are negotiated. You don't go "sit down" with people who are showing themselves to be anything but serious and who aren't making legitimate efforts to negotiate. The person who does that starts out a loser.

To put it in terms you MAY be able to understand, if you go to a car dealer to buy a new car and they start out by saying, "That sticker price doesn't mean anything. We're going to have to have 10K above that", you're not going to enter into negotiations with them; you're going to the next dealership down the road.
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