We'll stop your cola

Interesting article in the Post about the diplomatic sparing over genocide in Darfur - aparently the ambasador of the Sudan is threatening our cola supply:

What's more, the good and peaceful leaders of Sudan were prepared to retaliate massively: They would cut off shipments of the emulsifier gum arabic, thereby depriving the world of cola.

"I want you to know that the gum arabic which runs all the soft drinks all over the world, including the United States, mainly 80 percent is imported from my country," the ambassador said after raising a bottle of Coca-Cola.

A reporter asked if Sudan was threatening to "stop the export of gum arabic and bring down the Western world."

"I can stop that gum arabic and all of us will have lost this," Khartoum Karl warned anew, beckoning to the Coke bottle. "But I don't want to go that way.

It's been a while since I've heard of such retaliatory sanctions, at least as far as they don't relate to oil. Though I do know someone who will tell me that we're all suffering from a terrible dearth of North Korean cold noodle dishes.

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