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Obama Oil and Libya

by Jacob Shafer

March 31, 2011

“America cannot use our military wherever repression occurs. And given the costs and risks of intervention, we must always measure our interests* against the need for action.”

- President Obama, discussing the U.S. military campaign in Libya in a March 28 address

*Like when a country has the ninth-largest oil reserves in the world and supplies a significant percent of the crude consumed by our European allies, we’re interested.