Absolutely the latter. This is a civil war. Whether you think it was humanitarian intervention or not, this is a civil war. We have sided with one side, the opposition to Gadhafi.
Haass emphasizes that the conflict in Libya is a civil war and that the U.S. has taken a side.
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