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February 4, 2012

Obama, Merkel, Putin at War With Reason

Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail

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In a perfectly reasonable world, the entire economic future of Greece and Italy would not depend on provincial election outcomes in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Nor would the severity of Iran’s dictatorship be determined by the sensibilities of a small cluster of Republicans along some dusty road in Winnemucca, Nev.

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TAGGED: Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin

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