Moamer Kadhafi's prime minister offered on Sunday a truce to the visiting UN special envoy to Libya, Abdul-Ilah al-Khatib, in return for an immediate NATO ceasefire, as an anti-regime revolt entered a fourth month.
I did say at the beginning that Misrata should have been the government's priority before attacking east along the coast.
Perhaps the loyalists are closer to breaking than I think. Or they may simply be too weak to defeat the rebels now, and see no sense in risking a disaster no matter how low the odds are of something that bad happening.