General Petraeus said the situation in Afghanistan is likely to get harder before it gets easier, but success is possible.
彼得雷乌斯将军说，阿富汗的局势在好转前会变得更加艰难，但是成功是可能的。
Withdrawing from Iraq will be harder than Mr Obama's supporters hope; the war in Afghanistan will demand more sacrifices from Americans and Europeans than he has yet prepared them for.
从伊拉克撤军比奥巴马的支持者所预想的要难得多；阿富汗战争需要美国人和欧洲人付出更多的牺牲—比奥巴马准备付出的还要多。
If the number of American deaths rises too fast, Americans will start to take notice of Afghanistan and Mr Obama's job will become much harder.
如果美国阵亡人数上升太快，阿富汗将开始走入美国民众的视线，奥巴马的工作将难上加难。
I think for all those reasons it's a deep challenge, and yeah, probably harder than Afghanistan.
据此我认为这是一个更大的挑战，是的，很可能比阿富汗更棘手。
Like the Soviet empire (and the British one before it), it has failed to understand that controlling Afghanistan is much harder than invading it.
就和苏联帝国以及它之前的英国一样，美国并不了解控制阿富汗比入侵更困难。
“I’m under no illusions of the difficulty of the challenge, ” the former ambassador to Pakistan and Iraq told them. “If Iraq was hard, and it was hard, Afghanistan in many respects is harder.”
“这不是错觉，我正在面对一项艰巨的挑战，”前任驻巴基斯坦和伊拉克大使告诉他：“如果伊拉克问题是艰难的，巴基斯坦也是，那么阿富汗在许多方面要更甚于这两者。”
“I’m under no illusions of the difficulty of the challenge, ” the former ambassador to Pakistan and Iraq told them. “If Iraq was hard, and it was hard, Afghanistan in many respects is harder.”
“这不是错觉，我正在面对一项艰巨的挑战，”前任驻巴基斯坦和伊拉克大使告诉他：“如果伊拉克问题是艰难的，巴基斯坦也是，那么阿富汗在许多方面要更甚于这两者。”
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