In Search of the Perfect French Kiss - De Gaulle Departure

"True international diplomacy is not the purview of flaccid, limp rhetoric and dry, impenetrable bureaucracies. Indeed, the way to international understanding is one-on-one engagement in the universal life experience."
(In Search of the Perfect French Kiss - the Rendezvous)
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In their midnight, Paris hotel rendezvous and early morning denouement, they had shared a universal life experience. For a moment in Paris, France, they had seen International Peace through Love's eyes. Then, in deference to the World, they will suspend that personal moment of peace-found to pursue freedom for all.

There is love and consequences. The best life for them will be reclaimed when the bad taste of the Vietnam War and the Iraq War has been washed away by their sweet action in a Far East civil war.

Dr. Seuss was being trumped by bamboo shadows. So be it. This is no gulf war video game. This is a high-stakes game, with winner take all. This is life, this is death: for the peoples of Thailand, Burma, and beyond. There can be no Democracy of Love for them when there is oppression in tyranny for millions.

The French kiss soundtrack was being paused to listen sharply and clearly to the rising CIA symphony. War isn't Hell - War is a path to world peace...and their renewed eternal Love.

Duty called. They were answering.

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They ate breakfast in the Paris hotel suite. Eyes flickering, gazing into eyes. Neither spoke. Mere words were mute. Each knew.

They knew who and what they had been before last night and this morning. They knew who and what they together had become and where, for a few hours, they had gone.

They knew they must now return to who and what they had been - knowing, too, these hours, the genesis of their moment in time, their shared universal life experience, would never leave them.

Their pasts continued into their futures. To Langley, Virgina, to Bangkok, Thailand - yes. Yet, both knew their present forever would be in that future.