The question is what becomes of the remaining businesses, which are clearly quite weak.

It becomes a question as to what can the U.S. and our allies do, what should we do, what action, what option do we have?

The question becomes, do we re-sign him and take him through that whole ordeal again? We don't know.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong.

They clearly want to have their cake and eat it, too.