Safer? "Sir, I don’t know, actually."

GOP Ripping America to Shreds:

"Buy time?" asked an angry Senator Chuck Hagel, the Republican from Nebraska who announced Monday he would retire from the Senate next year. "For what?"...

..."The greatest risk for United States policy is not that we are incapable of making progress, but that this progress may now be largely beside the point, given the divisions that now afflict Iraqi society" said Senator Richard G. Lugar, the Indiana Republican whose voice on foreign policy is influential and whose support for the mission is clearly wavering."...

"...asked whether the current strategy in Iraq is "making America safer." General Petraeus first retreated to an explanation that he is doing his best "to achieve our objectives in Iraq."

But when pressed again, he said: "Sir, I don’t know, actually."