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The ground in afghanistan. is general petraeus realize he s sort of he s the president s way out of this war? well, before i address that question, let me just parse a little bit i think the importance of what we re hearing from general petraeus. for the first time we re hearing from him since he s assumed command. you heard what he just said, also what he didn t say. i asked him at another point whether or not he s trying to slow that washington clock down which is terminology that was used during the debate about the surge in iraq. and that s essentially what petraeus said then. we want to slow that washington clock down. i said is that what you re trying to do here? he said we re trying to show our decision makers that we re actually making some progress. if you coup that will with him saying here, look, the president is committed to beginning that withdrawal in july of next year, what i m going to do is look at what s happening on the ground. ....

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