[secretagent]

...it will take some time to make things all right in Iraq.

It may never happen, no matter what we do.

Or it may work if we convince the bombers that we will stay as long as it takes.

What a tense and grim gamble!

[syriacus]

  It may never happen, no matter what we do.

True, things could go wrong. And Kerry could have been elected.