If the U.S. would have joined Qatar and France and other countries would have come along and recognizing this provisional government, I think it would send a very, very powerful message to the people around Gadhafi that the end is coming.
Wolfowitz suggests that U.S. recognition of the Libyan provisional government would signal the impending end of Gadhafi's regime.
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