Well, that's politics for you... lots of back-and-forth discussions and bargaining, and if you look at the end result, you wonder why it took so long to reach i

Well, that's politics for you... lots of back-and-forth discussions and bargaining, and if you look at the end result, you wonder why it took so long to reach it. But this has already been ridiculed in antiquity ("Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus" - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace).