The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to…

The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to…

— Craig L. Thomas

America does not hold to the colonial tradition. America came, liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban and al-Qaida, came to an arrangement with Hamid Karzai,…

— Ahmed Rashid

Afghanistan can't police its borders, and its neighbors give sanctuary and assistance to insurgents.

— George Packer

Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and…

— Robin Cook

In Afghanistan, I was talking to Afghan elders who were world-weary of a lack of sustained attention from their own government and from the…

— Jo Cox

I mean, you can agree or disagree with Iraq or Afghanistan, but by the way, now the great campaigning cause out there is the…

— Tony Blair

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

— Khaled Hosseini

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

— Lakhdar Brahimi

Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache…

— Barton Gellman

There has been sort of, if you will, a moral interventionism on the part of the United States trying to reshape countries in our…

— Pat Buchanan

Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes sense.

— Stephen Kinzer

You don't bargain with terrorists. You don't appease terrorists. And anybody who believes that this is about something we've done has to ask themselves…

— Michael Chertoff

The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when…

— Bernie Sanders

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when…

— Solomon Ortiz

The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory…

— Noam Chomsky