Reply #35: Yes, there are others who can do that sort of work.

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But, only side has a gun that's truly loaded. The other guy of interest in the room has a bar of soap carved to look like a pistol, which is being half-hidden. So the analogy holds. Of course, there's the third perspective, that through the scopes of the SWAT snipers, and their rifles are definitely loaded and scoped in, perhaps on both of the gunmen.

Ross doesn't have to be acceptable to both sides. Likely, he'll be tasked to conduct diplomacy in Jerusalem, not Tehran. What he really is an emissary from WINEP, and part of the Clinton camp.