No doubt some in the Obama Administration are thinking about the decade-long stalemate that developed in Iraq during the nineties, in circumstances that are partly comparable to those emerging now in Libya; they want to move quickly to seize on the momentum of the Libyan rebellion and push Qaddafi into exile before he can hunker down and sustain a long defense of Tripoli. The seize-the-day argument is compelling, but it should not be an excuse for enabling reckless violence that contradicts the purpose of intervening in Libya in the first place.
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