The deadline is a year and a half away, and could always be adjusted based on events on the ground. If we haven't shown serious progress by then, we're not going to.

I truly hope the insurgents take up Caraveggio's suggestion. If they lay low for 18 months, we win. Because we'll spend those 18 months establishing security, rebuilding infrastructure, training more Iraqi troops and finding and confiscating weapons caches.

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Man up.