Sentence:  As Washington "Post" columnist Eugene Robinson writes, "War in Libya is justifiable only if we are going to hold compliant dictators to the same standard we set for defiant ones." This line of argument has surfaced in nearly every debate about Western military intervention since the end of the Cold War. The British even have a term for it: <WSD>"whataboutery</WSD>". If you are prepared to go to war to protect Libyan civilians from their government, then what about the persecuted in Bahrain? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Protesting at inconsistency; refusing to act in one instance unless similar action is taken in other similar instances.