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"A marathon, not a sprint"
Linda Feldmann
Like many second-term U.S. presidents, Donald Trump has devoted a fair amount of time to foreign affairs 鈥� specifically, sending envoys to negotiate deals in hopes of ending wars. He also relishes presiding over ceremonial signings of U.S.-brokered agreements, as he did on Thursday with the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Today, Ned Temko draws parallels between the original practitioner of 鈥渟huttle diplomacy,鈥� Henry Kissinger, and the Trumpian version. But, Ned notes, there鈥檚 a key difference: 鈥淜issingerian diplomacy was a marathon, not a sprint.鈥�
