picture and a much poorer commitment. i think what we want to see is using this announcement and how welcome it is as a springboard to a full global refugee protection programme that this country commits to, and a commitment to resettling more than 10,000 people per year. we need to make sure this kind of programme is based on principles rather than just in headlines. programme is based on principles rather thanjust in headlines. it needs to be flexible and responsive, if we need to resettle more people from afghanistan, as this crisis develops. but it also needs to be responsive to other global situations that are developing, other crises that are yet to happen and the more intractable refugee situations that exist in many parts of the world. we need to make sure this is not the governmentjust dipping its toe into refugee protection and picking and choosing theissuesit protection and picking and choosing the issues it wants to deal with. and links to that, we also need to be really su
so he could have a figleaf to hand out and say it will not ill pact the environment. most on the left think the president will approve it. they don t want him to, but they say it will happen. we have a 90-day period after the state department report for the federal agencies to weigh in. and then we are in a period where the decision can be made perhaps. but with the midterms in november, when is the politically right time? i think the sooner the later. whatever the fallout is going to be. and karl is right. there are three senators in the keystone pipeline pass that are for it. many of them, some of them, mary