The Gadhafi regime on Saturday acknowledged the airstrikes had forced its troops to retreat and accused international forces of choosing sides.
"This is the objective of the coalition now, it is not to protect civilians because now they are directly fighting against the armed forces," Khaled Kaim, the deputy foreign minister, said in the capital, Tripoli. "They are trying to push the country to the brink of a civil war."
Got it. The UN only said that the coalition could prevent the Libyan regime from slaughtering its own citizens. And the regime is outraged that the coalition is doing more than that.
Isn't that kind of like the man who murders his parents pleading to the judge for mercy because he's an orphan? Well, the analogy doesn't really fit, I guess. But it feels that way.
