When campaigning for the presidency, Barack Obama often appealed to “what Dr. King called ‘the fierce urgency of now.'” And, he would continue, “I believe that there’s such a thing as being too late, and that hour is almost upon us.”

According to today’s Washington Post, “The Khamis Brigade, named after Gaddafi’s youngest son, was reported to be flying in additional mercenaries from African countries as recently as Wednesday, according to Omar Khattaly, a co-founder of the Libyan Working Group, an exiled human rights group with offices in Atlanta and Europe. Some of the mercenaries were landing at what used to be the U.S. Wheelus Air Base, near Tripoli.”