Par exemple, en adoptant une position qui appuyait une date limite en vue d'une intervention éventuelle, on n'a jamais exclu que l'intervention serait justifiée, sans mentionner tous les autres éléments d'ambiguïté que vous connaissez tous beaucoup mieux que moi: on refuse de participer, mais on participe; on refuse d'appuyer, mais en fait, on ne s'oppose pas.
For example, by adopting a position in support of a deadline for a possible intervention, we never excluded the possibility that the intervention would be justified, leaving aside for a moment all of the other ambiguous aspects that you are much more familiar with than I am: we refused to participate, but we were participating; we refused to support the war, but in fact we were not opposed to it.