You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The strategy for peace-building in Afghanistan is economic aid, reconstruction, international security forces. On those lines, the U.S. has been extremely slow.… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I know what I said earlier, but Kabul isn’t that bad.” Mrs. Wahdati toyed with her necklace absently. She was looking out… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Kabul had become a city of ghosts for me. A city of harelipped ghosts. America was different. America was a river, roaring… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds… Perhaps I am looking for his ghost.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I returned to Kabul after a 27-year absence. I came away with some optimism but not as much as I had hoped… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Americans have eliminated Iran's worst enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam [Hussein]. I occasionally threatened my Iranian counterpart in Kabul that… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“war. Or, rather, wars. Not one, not two, but many wars, both big and small, just and unjust, wars with shifting casts… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I was shooting in Afghanistan in 2001, post 9/11. America was shelling the country and all the normal ways to enter the… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
Some of the guys in the Northern Alliance are war criminals. One of the Northern Alliance commanders ran a slave girl network… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan to transform her own life and ended up revolutionizing the lives of many of her Afghan sisters.… — Masha Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Knowing what Dan’s face had looked like in Kabul, the night they’d spent in the hotel room. What he’d said. My light,… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“Kabul was fairly peaceful now and Grandpa seemed to have started wasting away since the bombing stopped. For the past twenty-three years… — Petra Procházková Copy Share Image
After the war in Afghanistan, Anna [Wintour, editor of Vogue], deciding to save the world one hair-roller at a time, thought the… — Myrna Blyth Copy Share Image
No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
![“Americans have eliminated Iran's worst enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam [Hussein]. I occasionally threatened my Iranian counterpart in Kabul that one day I would send him a big bill for what we did. But, seriously, Iran is pursuing a dual strategy in Iraq. On the one hand, the…” quote by Zalmay Khalilzad](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9a1/zalmay-khalilzad-26467_afghanistan_americans-have-eliminated-iran-s-worst-e_1213227.png)
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