I think that maybe what you and I have is just a difference in strategies. I'm trying to make the case that it would have been one of the very best times to register our complaints about the text that we have now, in restarting the process on the base of the text. We could have just put a mark beside this line that said, “We do not agree with the text that was produced at the end of the last talks in November”.
I would say it's similar to buying a car. The easiest time to negotiate the price is before you pay for it. After you've paid for it and gone back to that dealer and said, “Gee, you know, I really wanted something different”—