“Khadafy won’t care that he’s being bombed for “humanitarian” rather than “regime change” reasons; it is absolutely certain that, once able, he’ll retaliate against those doing his forces mortal harm. If he keeps power over any significant part of Libya, he’ll likely return to international terrorism, as he has already threatened. He may also resume his quest for nuclear weapons — and this time we’ll have no hope of negotiating him out of it as we did in 2003-04.”

– John Bolton