Reading for comprehension: it's a pretty grand piano!
What did Casey say?
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"The forces are stretched ... and I don't think there's any question of that," Casey said of U.S. armed forces deployed in large numbers in Afghanistan and Iraq. "But the Army has been for the last several years going through a modernization strategy that will produce more units and more ready units."
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Ah, that word "but". It's a conjunction meant to indicate that there is a condition on the first part of the statement it joins. Let's construct it this way. If we don't stop for fuel, we will run out, but we are going to stop for fuel.
Stretched yes, breaking point no.