They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.
The worst thing you can do is allow a coalition to determine what your mission is.
The problem is the people who tend to be the best organized are the most radical and the most vicious.
It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
There's no debate in the world as to whether people have weapons of mass destruction... We all know that. A trained ape knows that.