live in struggles to break out of a continuous loop of bombardment of violence still go to michael maloof a former pentagon officer the get his take on this protracted conflict mr maloof thanks for being with us i mean a bombing campaign in libya is entering its fourth month is nato actually making any progress there as you see it. i think the progress that's been made is inflicting more collateral damage at this point i think it they tried to achieve a certain level of humanitarian effort and initially but the protracted bombing is now increasingly hitting civilian targets and it's creating a very negative reaction i think it does raise the question what is nato's role continued role going to be there and i think that there's no easy answer and as you pointed out the they're running out of ammunition and i think the united states is probably going to be called upon to try and make up the short falls if the congress approves even the congress in the united states is very concerned about what that what that role is and especially the u.s. for. i think i think this whole this whole effort i

it is libya remains in chaos and under bombardment from a pentagon official michael maloof told me that they too only wants to get western man's on the country's oil resources rather than to protect civilians. they tried to achieve a certain level of humanitarian effort and initially but the protracted bombing is now increasingly hitting civilian targets and it's creating a very negative reaction i think it does raise the question of what is nato's role continued role going to be there it looks more as though they're trying to basically ultimately split the country gain the resources. of oil in the eastern part consolidate a hold on that so that europe can continue to receive the oil which is vitally needs from from libya the western part. could go to khadafi since seems to be very well entrenched and there's been no sizable degree of. having kicked him out the question is what is being what has been accomplished. short of continuing to bomb targets which ultimately are hitting innocent people and i think that's probably one of the things that's going on right now is that we could offer