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July 2011 when forces are supposed to begin to come out. is your job as commander to try to slow down that washington clock? well, i think our job is again to show those in washington that there s progress being made and to do that we ve got to build on the progress that has been established so far because there s certainly nothing like irreversible momentum. what we have are areas of progress. we have got to link those together, extend them and build on it because the security progress, as you noted earlier, is the foundation for everything else, for the governance progress, the economic progress, rule of law progress and so forth. obviously they influence security as well. they can either reinforce it or they can undermine it. the trick is to get all of this moving so that you are spiraling upward where one initiative reinforces another. reporter: general petraeus says he supports the beginning ....

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