The primary element for chemical contaminant removal is the reverse osmosis unit, which works by using pressure to force a solution through a membrane, retaining the solute on one side and allowing the pure solvent to pass to the other side.
"Any attempt to force a solution on the parties without establishing the foundation of mutual trust will only deepen the conflict," Lieberman told diplomats in Jerusalem.
But the White House gave careful thought to the timing; aides to Bush said they did not want to appear to have the president forcing a solution on Congress.
In 1858 a large flotilla of the U.S. Navy appeared to force a solution to a complex diplomatic issue, but British war vessels captured and held for a time the flagship of the small Paraguayan navy.
But Morgan said the shutdown is a necessary last stand for the president to force a solution to a problem that Washington has failed to fully address for decades.
"The one agency with the authority to force a solution has chosen to sit on its hands," said Tarik M. Radwan, a lawyer for Jubilee Campaign, U.S.A., a religious-based human-rights group from Fairfax, Va.
"What I'd hope we learn from that is: 'Yep, we've got to fix the basic issues here.' " He went on, "What doesn't work, in Gration's mind, is forcing a solution.
"If the president did not agree to a solution and Republicans tried to force a solution, then there's a political cost to that," Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) said.
Using sanctions to force a solution to the outstanding ethnic conflict involving the Kachin armed group is a clumsy tactic that puts pressure only on the government and encourages the other side to fight on for a better deal.
Some Syrians who seek a more secular revolution blame the lack of Western support for driving the rebellion into the arms of the extremists, either by not supplying arms or by not forcing a solution.
