Had Gadbois wanted, from the start, someone who knew nothing about physics, someone who would be incapable not only of stealing his ideas but of seeing through their inherent fallacy?
But, as with his income-tax cuts, the prime minister seems to have gained nothingfrom his announcement shortly before the elections that he would start bringing the troops home.
As the Syrians and Israelis have already discovered, when nothing is down on paper, it is difficult for new talks to startfrom where the old ones broke off.