Military-speak for don’t get your hopes up

A top U.S. military official (unnamed, of course) says that
"Americans and Iraqis need 'to start thinking about and talking about what it's really going to be like in Iraq after elections.'"

Thanks for the heads up.

The official stressed that it was "important to calibrate expectations post-elections. I've been saying to folks: You're still going to have an insurgency, you're still going to have a dilapidated infrastructure, you're still going to have decades of developmental problems both on the economic and the political side."

[From the Washington Post.]