The death of Osama bin Laden has driven the Libyan civil war from the headlines, but military operations continue—and the Western alliance must now begin to wrestle with some difficult questions.
An underlying premise of the "no fly zone" begun by a U.S.-British-French coalition and subsequently transferred to NATO control was that a resolute show of air power in Libya would enable rebel forces on the ground to rapidly take control of large portions of the country, while encouraging a supposedly restive population in Tripoli itself to take to the streets, emboldened by the sight of bombs falling on Muammar Qaddafi's headquarters.
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