It was indeed. More startling was the speed with which they entered Tripoli. There is still very heavy fighting going on throughout the city. The regime is toast but the loyalists have not been defeated ... yet.
"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten." Hunter S. Thompson