Crowley asks:
The 2012 presidential campaign is just getting underway, and the likely Republican candidates–who have generally been slippery on the Libya question thus far–will not be able to dodge this one. GOP foreign policy elites, whom the top candidates either know well or have an incentive to impress, have mostly supported a forceful intervention. (See Bill Kristol's latest.) But polls are mixed, showing public support for a no-fly zone but not for actual military strikes, which now seem a real possibility ("all necessary means…"). This could also be a defining moment for Tea Party Republicans, who have alternately shown streaks of isolationism and hawkishness. Finally, what will we hear from Obama's Democratic allies in Congress–many of them exhausted by the foreign interventions of the past decade?
We need to get all of these on the record as soon as possible. A congressional vote is a good place to start.
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