The Bush/Cheney administrations’ days of international travel are over. [1]

On the one hand, “surely this…”

On the other:

THOUGH the mills of God grind slowly,
Yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience he stands waiting,
With exactness grinds he all.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [2]

[1] http://www.ecchr.de/us_accountability.html
[2] http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/2000/l/long52.html