"Pro-Qaddafi Forces Push Rebels Into Chaotic Retreat."

The NYT reports:

Forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi advanced rapidly on Wednesday, seizing towns they ceded just days ago after intense allied airstrikes and hounding rebel fighters into a chaotic retreat....

There were few signs of the punishing airstrikes that reversed the loyalists’ first push.

Did God not hear Thomas Friedman's prayer?!

I am proud of my president, really worried about him, and just praying that he’s lucky...

I hope Qaddafi’s regime collapses like a sand castle, that the Libyan opposition turns out to be decent and united and that they require just a bare minimum of international help to get on their feet. Then U.S. prestige will be enhanced and this humanitarian mission will have both saved lives and helped to lock another Arab state into the democratic camp.

Dear Lord, please make President Obama lucky.