The message from President Barack Obama on Thursday was unambiguous: "Colonel Gadhafi needs to step down from power and leave."
Libya's delusional dictator is not, of course, listening as he makes a last-ditch, homicidal effort to stay in power.
So, some frustrated Americans are calling for missiles instead of messages. They want the United States to blast its way into Libya, oust Gadhafi and . . . who knows? This is a gut reaction, not a strategy. It's an express route to creating an anti-American backlash.
A dramatic 15-foot-high banner went up Monday in the main square of Benghazi, the revolution's stronghold, that said in English: "No foreign intervention. Libyan people can manage it alone."
We should pay attention.
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