James Jones: “Colombia has made great strides in protecting the unions. There is no question.”

Jobs. The Keystone pipeline will create 42,000 jobs.

But when questions of sovereignty kick in and they feel like the terms are being dictated, what they're being asked to do is an affront to their national pride.

The Keystone pipeline has become a litmus test for how people will determine how the United States projects itself in the global energy arena.

I am not an advocate for the term 'energy independence' because I think it is protectionist and isolationist.