America the Flakey

Bloomberg is reporting that Obama will reject the Keystone XL pipeline. This is a disaster for America in strategic, economic, and diplomatic terms. It has real-world damaging affects but also it is, to my mind, the sine qua non of what I have talked about before - flakiness. This is a flakey policy. America is now flakey, and this is perhaps one of the worst outcomes of electing a man such as Barack Obama - we can't make sensible decisions and close deals that our allies and us have worked on for years.