inroads questionable at rest.
>> jack berger and doug olivant
in washington, d.c, a former
ambassador to iraq.
mr. olivant, you heard jamie
mcintire talking about the
unlikelihood of some progress
against i.s.i.l. in libya.
what do you think based on your
knowledge and your conversations
with security officials in d.c,
will it take to diminish
i.s.i.l.'s influence in libya?
>> well, the setup piece talked
about special forces, raids, and
air power.
and that's wonderful to do
pinprick, stop the bleeding,
keep them from expanding.
but to really take the fight to
i.s.i.l. in libya we have to
have a unity government.
so the military and the
diplomatic tracks aren't
contradictory.
we need to do one in fairly
limited fashion, to do what we
can while this unity government
tries to establish itself, but
that is really the answer in the
long term is to get government