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President Obama Spells Out Mission In Libya

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President Barack Obama delivers his address on Libya at the National Defense University in Washington yesterday. (AP)
President Barack Obama delivers his address on Libya at the National Defense University in Washington yesterday. (AP)

In his speech last night, President Obama said that the U.S. had to intervene militarily in Libya to prevent a massacre of civilians. What does that mean for U.S. foreign policy going forward? And what's the political fallout from the military intervention?

We speak with Rick Klein, Senior Washington Editor for ABC World News, and host of the ABC News political webcast “Top Line.”

This segment aired on March 29, 2011.

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