"Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

Here is some of the Gettysburg Address: "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

"I don't think anything there was a surprise. What the assessment says is basically, things are catastrophically bad in Afghanistan, which is,I'd say, objectively true, but that things are not unsalvageable, that we can turn this around as long as we stay dedicated to the appropriate strategy and fully resource that strategy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22