Making the World Love Us
This is less of a President Obama issue than it is a Democratic party, and specifically a Democratic Congress issue: “Since 2002, Colombia has been the top U.S. ally in Latin America. Yet it still can’t get a vote from a protectionist U.S. Congress on a free trade agreement it needs.”
It is also largely a labor, no, a union issue. It is also wrong, and self-destructive. We are pushing away a friendly nation who is turning elsewhere, including to China, to find trading partners. That doesn’t help anyone.
