I think if we go ahead, re-look at our plan, and we start making changes where we had issues, I think in 2020 we can take a more constructive way and go ahead then,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

"If we get to the summer of 2011 and people do not feel that we have made real progress, then I do not think there is an appetite here - or an appetite in the U.S.- to say, 'Well let us have another go and another go.'

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"The timeline that we've talked about is actually,in a sense that, if I were to use the surge in Iraq, look where we are right now, sort of apply the same kind of timeline to Afghanistan, as best we can tell, and we think that's reasonable, in terms of having the impact, and then being able to thin our forces out and bring them back".

VOA: standard.2009.11.04