Neither he nor Ayman Safadi in Jordan, nor Professor Eliot Cohen or historian William Polk spoke of any imminent decisive victory over the Iraqi insurgents.

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"I am not a doctor, nor am I a medical historian, but these injuries are very difficult to recover from after one surgery, and I'm not sure what the history is of recovery from a second more or less identical surgery, " general manager Sandy Alderson said on a conference call.

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"We can endure neither our condition nor the means to overcome it, " tweeted analyst Pratap Bhanu Mehta, quoting Polybius, the Greek historian, after the events last night.

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