It's important to be friends with people when you don't need each other so that when you do there's a strong bond of friendship. And that's going to be particularly important in dealing not only with situations such as now occurring in Israel, but with Saddam Hussein.
diplomacy is simple and can be done effectively by a novice
International diplomacy can never be simple and is much better off in the hands of experienced individuals, not novices
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