Oh sure, surrender and be executed possibly by torture by rival tribesmen or kill as many of them as you can and make for the southern deserts to fight another day. When we get mixed up in this type of civil war, there will be slaughters and war crimes on all sides with the US as a complicit party when we had no business there in the first place.
I tend to agree w/ you. Especially “we had no business there in the first place.” There is much the US & the West can do to prevent Islam spreading in the West. As well as strengthening our own backyard.
As for Gaddafi, my guess when all this started was that he will be eventually executed or assassinated, and Libya will be partitioned. We’ll see...