My Brit deputy and I have become adept at bringing in
coalition donors for coffee or Chai to discuss and get consensus on one topic or
another. It’s a wonderful exercise as
you get to know someone on a personal level and tease out positions that
otherwise would never get said in a formal meeting. It’s a great way to get things done, and we
should do more of it back home. What
someone drinks, whether it’s at the bar or in the coffee house, says much about
them. This past week, I had four
Chocolate Chai Lattes in just one afternoon, but what we gained from our
counterparts was worth more than a month’s worth of meetings. Maybe I need to set up a Chai account in the
budget which will certainly be much cheaper (and more effective) than three Armored
Vehicles, 15 Guardians on a trip to the edge of the Green Zone.
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