Libya’s rebels, as a Washington Examiner headline puts it, are “big on zeal” but “short on organization.” They are also short on firepower, but their problems on that front may be coming to an end, now that it seems the US is edging towards military action against Colonel Gadhafi. (You can read a fine new piece by Washington Examiner columnist Timothy Carney that pinpoints just who is behind the push for the US to involve itself in a third war in a Muslim country.)

If today’s New York Times article about how the US is shifting into intervention mode is any indication, there seems to have been a panic over Libya in the corridors of the Obama Administration.