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Obama’s Libya Speech: Why Consistency in Foreign Policy is Overrated.

In the president's Libya speech tonight, he'll have to deflect critics who ask why we're taking on Gaddafi—but not other murderous regimes. Peter Beinart on why consistency in foreign policy is overrated.

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