Although today's ball game was a different ball game, but better still my team all the time has demonstrated power, strength,energy,resistance resolute, and it showed once again,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

The admiral says the situation in Iraq seemed impossible to resolve a few years ago, and,although the two countries are very different,and progress in Iraq is not a guarantee of progress in Afghanistan, it does give him reason to be hopeful about Afghanistan - even during the current period of heavy violence and at best,slow progress.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22