Gaddafi not stepping down is our fault

First of all, I wanna say, it is spelled Gaddafi, or al-Gaddafi in English, and al-Qaḏḏāfī in Arabic. Not Gadhafi, Qadhafi, Gaddhafi, Qaddhafi or even Kadhafi, like many blogger, journalists alike think

Nonetheless, he is a pain in the rear end without a question. Members of UN Security Council have unanimously decided that. While Gaddafi refuses to back down, we may have to ask one question: is his personality (being a jackass) the determining factor for this persistence, or we are partially to blame?

Let's step into Gaddafi's shoes for a second (assuming he is a sane person, i.e., do things that are good for him). He obviously has two choices, fight till the end, or surrender to protesters/"justice".

The breakdown:
1. Fight!
a. Protesters are scared, and supporters prevail - I enjoy my lavish life till death do us apart, and possibly find some more Ukraine nurses. Win!
b. I lose all my supports, and surrounded by protesters - Commit suicide or eat hundreds of bullets. Die.

2. Surrender
Now this gets interesting. My good ol' friend Mubarak just did that. Let's see how he is hangin'. Mmm... It doesn't look so bad. He doesn't seem to be killed or executed. Not like he got beaten up by thousands of pissed Egyptians.

Wait a sec, let's see what is on the news. Foreign assets are frozen, traveling is banned, and family funds are seized etc etc. How is that better than being dead with a few Ukraine nurses in my arms, especially after enjoying an extravagant life?

Alright then, I am winning either way if I fight till the end. I shall do the worst then!
- the end -

The way we deal with Mubarak while trying to convince Gaddafi to do the same is absolutely retarded. It only makes the whole Gaddafi situation worse. Mubarak stepped down because he didn't know how he would be treated, and he had that last bit of naive thought in the bottom of his mind. For Gaddafi though, we pretty much let him know that he is better off to keep fighting us. You can't just heavily guard Mubarak without actually doing anything for now? Just to give Gaddafi some illusion is too hard?

Well, whom can I blame, those people surely have never heard about the history of Chu-Han contention, and how the difference between Liu Bang and Xiao Yu's approaches of treating surrenders lead to the huge difference in how easy it was to seize cities in later battles.