Phyllis Bennis: U.K. Sends Troops Into Libya as International Coalition Expands Mission to Include Regime Change

"As NATO continues its campaign against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s forces and to their attacks on Libyan civilians, Great Britain announced today it will send military officers to advise rebels fighters. “This is exactly the type of escalation many of us warned against on the evening the U.N. first passed its no-fly zone resolution,” says Phyllis Bennis, Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, who opposes U.N. intervention in Libya. “We see a clear commitment on the part of NATO and the U.S. for regime change—exactly what the U.N. resolution would not designed to do.”...."