NPR:
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime has reached out to the rebels seeking to overthrow his government "for some sort of negotiated solution to this crisis," NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro tells our Newscast desk.It always happens like this. Eventually a crisis reaches a line between compromise and no compromise. Eventually that line is crossed and there is no turning back. If my memory is correct, Albert Camus writes about this line, this point of no return in his book The Rebel. It is here, beyond the line, that the defiant despot transforms the democratic rebel into a totalitarian. Is this not the history of the 20th century?But, she says, "officials from the rebel 'government' here have flatly refused to have anything to do with Tripoli as long as Moammar Gadhafi stays in power. They say 'he must go and then we can talk; not before that.' "
