"Making a decision that's good for the next two to three years and making a decision that's good for the next 20 to 30 years sometimes are atoddswitheachother, and being able to balance those two can sometimes be difficult, " Liddy said on the PBS program.
With geography frequently atoddswith the accidents of history, fringe towns in different nations are often closer to eachother physically and culturally than the capitals they report to.