Administration officials and military leaders have iterated in numerous
congressional hearing and press conferences that U.S. troops will
not leave Iraq until that nation is “safe and secure.”
But describing what that exactly means has been problematic. There
is no easy way to define “safe and secure,” said Marine
Lt. Gen. James T. Conway, director of operations on the Joint Chiefs
of Staff.
“I think we’ll know it when we see it,” Conway
told reporters.