It is time to take a step back and put this open-ended commitment into proper perspective.

"We've got to let the Iraqis know there is no open-ended commitment."

What began as an emergency measure has become an open-ended, budget-wrecking commitment.

And for me, a mixed report is not sufficient to continue to have an open-ended commitment of troops.

The days of an open-ended commitment to the conflict were over.

America should help with satellite surveillance and economic aid but not make another open-ended commitment to be the cop on Europe's beat.

The real question is whether the central bank will retreat from its open-ended commitment to keep rates low "for a considerable period."

"Here at least there is an open-ended commitment that can be discussed."

There is even what appears to be an open-ended commitment for more funds in 2011.

"The markets were looking for that kind of open-ended commitment and did not get it."