Viva Libya libre!

Enough already: it's time for the United States to extend recognition to the provisional government of Libya. It's just plain humiliating that we should stand by, thumbs in all the wrong places, waiting for the United Nations, when France and Britain are leading the way with actions that really bite the dictator in his softer extremities. There's a civil war in Libya! The good guys are winning! Please, Mr. Obama, don't just stand there gazing helplessly toward Turtle Bay: do something. Show the world that you deserve that Nobel Peace Prize you got so effortlessly. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford