US & France no longer insist on Qaddafi's departure

"Four months after launching an international no-fly zone over Libya, the United States and France appear to have backed off an earlier demand that Libya's Muammar Gadhafi leave the country. Instead, they are demanding that Gadhafi surrender power in a meaningful way.
"We insist he steps down from power in a demonstrable and tangible and permanent way," a senior U.S. official told The Envoy Wednesday. "Whether he stays or goes from Libya is a question the Libyans need to answer."
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, speaking on French television Wednesday, made a similar point...
U.S. diplomats met with Gadhafi envoys on Saturday in Tunis. State Department officials characterized the purpose of the meeting as to get across one message: that Gadhafi has to go. But apparently, the coordinated message they are delivering is that he meaningfully vacate his office, not the country..."