Petraeus sees increasingly durable gains in Iraq (Reuters)

By David Morgan 7 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus said on Tuesday that security gains in Iraq are increasingly durable but warned that that methods which helped reduce violence there may not work in Afghanistan. Petraeus, the former commander in Iraq who is credited by U.S. officials with saving the country from sectarian war, emphasized that progress in Iraq remains fragile and reversible despite an 80 percent drop in violence. "But I have to say that the fragility is less," he said in a speech to the Association of the U.S. Army, a nonprofit group that supports the armed service. "And with each passing day there is a little bit less of that fragility as progress takes on a slightly more enduring nature," he said. It was an unusually upbeat assessment of the situation from the normally... [read full story]