In Afghanistan this week, outnumbered Northern Alliance rebels on horseback defeated Taliban forces armed with tanks. Experts say the victory is just… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
US forces have been increased [in Afghanistan ] from some 21,000 to about 31,000 over the past two years and a number… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The drones are really interesting - how have the troops withdrawn from Afghanistan? Because we've upped the drone strikes and most of… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
We know definitively that Al-Qaida isn't all over Afghanistan anymore. According to CIA estimates, there are less than a hundred Al-Qaida members… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in Afghanistan]. I… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
Immediately after the September 11th attacks, I volunteered to go to Afghanistan in any capacity that the CIA wanted me. Four months… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Americans keep telling me they hate government. I always tell them: "Man, I've got a country for you: Go to Afghanistan; they… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I was thinking about Afghanistan's future, Afghanistan's next generation, what we have next. These children who learn how to kill people, how… — Najibullah Quraishi Copy Share Image
My first assignment was 12 weeks in Afghanistan. After that, I covered the Indian election for two months. Then I got a… — Daniel Berehulak Copy Share Image
The New York Times will tell you what is going on in Afghanistan or the Horn of Africa. But it is no… — Edwin Diamond Copy Share Image
Barack Obama commits war crimes - Somalia, Yemen. He commits war crimes in Pakistan, Afghanistan. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to keep… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East,… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
“My country is still in chains of bloody and terrorist fundamentalists. The situation in Afghanistan and conditions of its ill-fated women will… — Malalai Joya Copy Share Image
[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We took out the safe haven in Afghanistan, but now there is, undoubtedly, a larger safe haven and we must rise to… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake Barack Obama could have made is to change quite a few things in his Afghanistan policy. He increased the… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
Having the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed due to highly invasive and unwarranted… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Dysfunctional states like Afghanistan need business people who are deeply rooted in their country and invest in it. They can add stability.… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
“I have the impression that our children are much more excited about going to school than children in other countries are. They… — Cheryl Benard quoting Shahla Asad Copy Share Image
If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan,… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Afghans think the burqa is a permanent part of culture. But, if you bring it to Europe, how would people react? Afghanistan… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
Equally important is the lack of cultivable land for farmers, a profound problem when you take into account that Afghanistan has always… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get… — Ross Kemp Copy Share Image
“An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or,… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“It was too late to pray, though. The sky was clear. The helicopters were gone. Too late for so many things. My… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
I remind you again we had those elections [in Afghanistan and Iraq] because we had boots on the ground and we had… — Peter Schoomaker Copy Share Image
Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
![“US forces have been increased [in Afghanistan ] from some 21,000 to about 31,000 over the past two years and a number of coalition countries have also increased their forces, there still are not sufficient troops.” quote by David Petraeus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/192/david-petraeus-11182_afghanistan_us-forces-have-been-increased-in-afghani_2795813.png)
![“Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a mafia; textbook economics does not work in my context.” quote by Ashraf Ghani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/240/ashraf-ghani-4964_afghanistan_economics-taught-in-most-of-the-elite-un_2008494.jpg)
![“Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in Afghanistan]. I don't think we are going to be any exception. What made us exempt from history?” quote by Gwynne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e1/gwynne-dyer-29209_afghanistan_never-did-anyone-ever-stay-longer-than-t_1571027.png)
![“[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cd/christopher-hitchens-117_afghanistan_i-f-you-think-that-american-imperialism_2814778.jpg)
![“An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then asked not to focus on the Taliban but on manipulating senators into giving more funds and troops [to the war].” quote by Michael Hastings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44d/michael-hastings-6810_afghanistan_an-information-operations-team-was-sent_395510.png)
![“I remind you again we had those elections [in Afghanistan and Iraq] because we had boots on the ground and we had people that could help people, and we had people on the ground that could get into somebody's face when they had to, and do whatever was required.” quote by Peter Schoomaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf8/peter-schoomaker-83598_afghanistan_i-remind-you-again-we-had-those-election_710157.png)
