I can't believe that no one yet has answered the title question of this thread......it is a simple and easily grasped answer and no one has pointed it out.....
You asked "Why?"
I answer "Because!"
How easy is that? sheesh.
now for the rest of this discussion
waiting 12 or 13 years is not sudden.
It is easy to say keep enforcing sanctions when you don't have to pay that bill.
It is easy to say, keep patrolling the area, when you don't have to supply the ships and men...and don't have to explain the deaths that happen each and every day to men and women of the armed forces while deployed to patrol this region.
All this is quite adaquately addressed in other threads, increase your patience and read some...after all you say the US and UK are impatient after waiting 12 years.....
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