The must-read oped yesterday from David Ignatius:

“The Bush administration has demonstrated, in too many ways, that it’s better at starting fights than finishing them. It shouldn’t make that same mistake again. Threats of war will be more convincing if they come slowly and reluctantly, when it has become clear that truly there is no other choice.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/11/AR2006041101078.html