The level of attacks they've been able to generate has not increased substantially here over what we've seen in the last year, ... This insurgency is not progressing.
Fighting insurgencies is a long-term proposition, and there's no reason that we should believe that the insurgency in Iraq will take any less time to deal with.
There is still lots of tough work to do and we should expect the insurgency not to just go away because there were elections.
We should expect the insurgency not to just go away, but to gradually reduce.