It seems that Vance arrived in Islamabad without the full authority to reach an agreement with Iran, unlike Ghalibaf.
According to his own account, he called Trump more than 12 times during 21 hours of negotiations to discuss the issues. And according to Araghchi, he spoke with Netanyahu at least once during the Islamabad talks.
The US needs a negotiator who can reach an agreement on the spot, not someone who keeps a phone in hand and, like a child, has to check everything with daddy or uncle.
Civilization was built by people like this, and there is a stunning lack of gratitude in our culture for their work.
In this specific case, at least half of the apple varieties in Brown’s collection were considered “lost” until he personally tracked them down and saved them.
He literally went on quests where he did things like, tracking a lost variety back to a stump of a long-ago-cut-down tree near an abandoned homestead in remote Appalachia, took cuttings from the green shoots coming out of the stump, brought them back and planted them.
Absolute legend.
🇮🇷🇺🇸 “The US invaded and destroyed two neighbors of Iran on false pretenses, when Muammar Ghadafi denuclearized he was couped in the most brutal way … maybe Iran feels threaten too?”
— Dave Smith even predicted that they will attack during negotiation. WOW
Reminds me of a US SF group that seized a PPSH with a ton of ammo during a raid. Their armorer slapped a red dot and foregrip on it, and they kept it in their truck.