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November 20, 2011

Pipeline Decision Will Weaken Obama

Brian Lee Crowley, Ottawa Citizen

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Folly is too kind a word for this decision. It is the crassest pandering to a tiny minority of Americans whose demands run demonstrably contrary to U.S. interests. And even that electoral calculation is misconceived, for it will weaken, not strengthen, Barack Obama.

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