CNN CNN Newsroom August 30, 2013 19:39:00
When you're dealing with a diplomatic situation like this and the prospect of ending up going to war or doing surgical strikes or whatever it may be, people need to be very clear in what you are saying that you will do and under what conditions and setting expectations and adhering to them. otherwise you end up with everything being a jumble. there is no predictability. that's going to make it very hard to actually go in and get people to do what you actually want them to do. because their assumption is going to be that there may be a lot of crying wolf going on. i think that is probably the b...