Well, two things on that. First of all, I think the reason that we reached this decisive moment, a real change in where we were, is because The President was willing to apply some significant pressure and actually say, if you don't come to the table, the American people, we're not going to get involved in this war directly. We have a lot of economic points of leverage and we're willing to use those to bring about peace. And that was a big thing that happened. (09:11–09:20)
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