Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 13, 2013
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Transcript:
Hamid Karzai: You call that an offer? It's an insult! Red Rascal: Suit yourself! Dude! I need a favor! Jeff: It's possible I jumped the shark. Becca: No, no. I've been in negotiations just like this! The talks have broken down. As he storms out of the palace, Rascal calls an old CIA colleague. Moments later.
I dunno, I’m with Becca. I’ve been in negotiations just like that quite often. You think you’re in a rational discussion and suddenly everything explodes and extremely weird decisions are made. Only later do you find out that X couldn’t stand to work with Y, so got Z to refuse to allocate staff and resources to make Y’s project fail so that Y would get sacked – that sort of thing. Business is stranger than fiction…