Let's not try yet another "Iraq War" in Libya. Hold the course, Mr. President and keep it a "war" of words!

The message from President Barack Obama yesterday was unambiguous: "Colonel Gadhafi needs to step down from power and leave." But no, it didn't suggest that we would step in and lose another 4500 of our boys (and girls) as we did in GWB's ill-conceived Iraq War in 2004!

What our president said was what he said--no more, no less. No bombs. bullets and bodies resulting from US actions. Their Civil War is THEIR Civil War.

Sometimes, it takes greater courage not to act than to show sad and deadly bravado when there is no need for it.

Libya's delusional dictator is not listening to Mr. Obama or any other world leader as he makes his last-ditch, homicidal (and suicidal) effort to stay in power.

So, some frustrated Americans (Republicans and Democrats, sadly) 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 last Monday and Tuesday 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.