[nanliu]

Long term foreign relationships cannot be built on top of four year presidential terms. Besides Israel, I'm not sure any country has continuity between recent administrations.

[inetknght]

> Long term foreign relationships cannot be built on top of four year presidential terms.

Yes indeed, I agree.

Although: long term foreign relationships certainly can be un-built on top of four year presidential terms. See: current US president and rest-of-the-world.

[baggachipz]

Not just un-built, but poisoned for generations.

[dgfitz]

It takes a week to remodel a kitchen and an hour to demolish it.