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First-time founders see all sorts of issues and want to resolve them by themselves. This can overwhelm them and be inefficient. Second-time founders think thoroughly who the best person (other than themselves) is to solve any given problem and focus their own energy on the big ones.
What Successful Second-Time Founders Do Differently
Feliks Eyser
Officially, the West continues to pursue its goal of regime change in Syria, in the deluded hope that the Baghdad government will somehow help defuse the tensions between Sunnis and Shiites – even though their policies are part of the problem
reason to doubt that claim. To have consulted the Departments of State and Defense, the C.I.A., the appropriate Congressional committees, and all allies whose interests would have been affected prior to Kissinger’s 1971 Beijing trip would only have ensured that it not take place. To have attempted arms control negotiations with Moscow in the absence of a “back channel” that allowed testing positions before taking them would probably have guaranteed failure. And the only way Nixon saw to break the long stalemate in the Vietnamese peace talks—short of accepting Hanoi’s demands for an immediate withdrawal of American forces and the removal from power of the South Vietnamese government—was to increase military and diplomatic pressure on North Vietnam while simultaneously decreasing pressures from within Congress, the anti-war movement, and even former members of the Johnson administration to accept Hanoi’s terms. That too required operating both openly and invisibly.
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
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