Its called diplomacy Gary. Carter is sometimes useful when an attempt at communication is being made. Salah ad Din used to send runners to bring ice from the mountains of Lebanon so Richard I could chill his wine, while having dinner after a day of trying to split each other's skulls open.
As they say, don't speak ill of the dead. Also, don't trust their successors.
Born 1945 in Los Angeles. Worked from 1998-2016 as adjunct teacher at University of California at Irvine Ext. teaching English as a second language.
Served three years in US Army Military Police at Erlangen, Germany 1966-68.
1970-1973- Criminal Investigator with US Customs
1973-1995 Criminal investigator with Drug Enforcement Administration. Stationed in Los Angeles, Bangkok, Milan, Italy, Pittsburgh and Office of Training, FBI Academy, Quantico, Va. until retirement.
Author of Erlangen-An American's History of a German Town-University Press of America 2005,
The Story of Papiamentu- A Study in Slavery and Language, University Press of America, 2002, and
The Languages of the Former Soviet Republics-Their History and Development, University Press of America, 2000.
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There is no dictator that Jimmy Carter did not like.
Squid
Its called diplomacy Gary. Carter is sometimes useful when an attempt at communication is being made. Salah ad Din used to send runners to bring ice from the mountains of Lebanon so Richard I could chill his wine, while having dinner after a day of trying to split each other's skulls open.
As they say, don't speak ill of the dead. Also, don't trust their successors.
Squid, you seem to have forgotten Anastasio Somoza. Or is there some reason you don't consider him a dictator?
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