Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

“Afghanistan is a land of widows and widowers, orphans and the missings. Missing a right leg, a left hand, a child,or a mother. Everyone…

— Nadia Hashimi

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

— Hamid Karzai

“The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have…

— Craig M. Mullaney

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

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

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

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

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

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

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