The brutal murder of Muadh al-Kasasbeh, the pilot who was captured by the Islamic State (Isis), is likely to have a devastating impact on Jordan and may in the long term undermine its role in the US-led coattackingttacking jihadi targets in Syria.
So failing to acknowledge the largely responsible and useful messages they put out about diet and eating is not only doing them a disservice – it also, in the long term, undermines her own laudable campaign.
The fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan showed that a temporary power vacuum can lead to long-term instability and undermine the formation of a functioning state.The impact of Libya's liberation on the rest of the Arab world looks clearer.
Such long-term technical problems undermine Africa's credibility as a potential future global technology hub.
Only then can the best argument against these statutes be properly framed: In the long-term, they will undermine the physician-patient relationship by making the doctor the mouthpiece of the state.
"A political party affiliated with Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, the former president and key member of the Iranian regime, on Sunday called on Mir-Hossein Moussavi, the opposition leader, to form a 'political bloc' that would pursue a long-term campaign to undermine the 'illegitimate' government".
His message, in books, op-ed articles and testimony before Congress, was simple: too much speculation and too little long-term investment were undermining American business.
We all know today's situation runs the risk of aggravating long-term bitterness and undermining relationships that are critical to any hope of peace.
The letter to the senators said Ms. Norton's career reflected "a long-term commitment to undermining the policies of land and wildlife protection for which the Interior Department bears responsibility".
Worse, even some whites now play the race card — recently, and ignobly, demonstrated by former President Bill Clinton — which threatens to become what Ford calls a "national patois," a dangerous and shortsighted way of crying wolf that has the long-term effect of undermining valid complaints from those who still suffer genuine racial injury.
