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Published 11/24/2008 by Walter Pincus at Wash Post Federal Page
"The notion that things are out of control in Afghanistan or that we're sliding toward a disaster, I think, is far too pessimistic," Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Friday during a news conference in Nova Scotia.
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