“Improv time is over. This is crunch time. Iraq will be won or lost in the next few months. But it won't be won with high rhetoric. It will be won on the ground in a war over the last mile.”

— Thomas Friedman

New York Times (28 November 2004) "The Last Mile".
"The next … months" in Iraq

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