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Obama Speech Reaction: Energy Reform Is the New War

The president's Oval Office address on the oil spill sounded more warlike than his speeches on Afghanistan. Peter Beinart on how he’s seizing the crisis to push for major energy reform.

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President Barack Obama is photographed after delivering a televised address from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday June 15, 2010. (Photo: Alex Brandon /AP Photo)

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