“…Egypt was followed by Barbados, Grenada, and the civil war in El Salvador, where I spent seven years.In 1997, I was sworn in as USAID mission director to Lebanon, which was struggling to rebuild after sixteen years of civil war. Three years later, the fall of Slobodan Milosevic took me to Serbia and Montenegro.The cadre that does diplomacy and foreign assistance in war zones is a very small one, known as specialists in that art. …”