"After the Iraq experience, nobody is prepared to have a long slog where it is not apparent we are making headway. The troops are tired; the American people are pretty tired."-Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Los Angeles Times, July 19.rn"The Army's role [in Afghanistan] will evolve, but the whole process might take as long as 30 to 40 years."-Gen. David Richards, new chief of the British Army, whose comment aroused immediate furor in Parliament, Times of London, Aug. 8.
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