"I have every confidence in the London Marathon community and the Metropolitan Police that they won't let it go ahead unless they have done everything possible, " she said in a BBC interview.
The theory, however, would be reversed: instead of only humanitarian goods being let into Iraq, everything would be free to go in except for prohibited items.
Anyone who thinks this was just a minor problem and everything would have been fine if we let everyone go broke is not thinking straight and is indulging in reconstructive thinking after the fact.