[Harp]

Nothing new really. The Times are squeezing Rummy's words pretty hard in order to get a headline that sounds like it might be an Afgan D-Day. We'll keep putting more people in. We'll get people in Afganistan controlling an airport before hard winter (my guess) -- I think that's well within what a military plan might be.

[RobbyS]

Golly Gee, but these reporters have been looking at too many video games. We are moving far faster than we did in Lebanon in 1959, when we made a comparable buildup of forces. The difference is that IKE was able to conceal most of that effort from the view of the media.