Inside the White House there were always extreme amounts of doubt about whether they should be escalating in Afghanistan. In fact, most… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan,… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes.… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
The Afghan - obviously the parties will decide which course of action. The most important there, get a government that is seen… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Peace is our goal, but peace from strength, an enduring peace that will bring regional cooperation. What we have emphasized and agreed… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I am proud that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, I am raising the flag of such a people,… — Nur Muhammad Taraki Copy Share Image
Afghanistan has the capacity to become an industrialized country because of its mining and agriculture sectors. We can also create jobs for… — Ashraf Ghani 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
I remember, on the medevac helicopter, I said to myself, "I am not f - - g dying in Afghanistan." People talk… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know,… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
It is imperative that Congress provides adequately funded and stable budgets which allow us to support Afghan personnel and ensure that Afghanistan… — Elise Stefanik Copy Share Image
For instance, in the last five years [till 2016], we've admitted nearly 100,000 immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan. And these two countries… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
This flirtation with isolationism in the Republican party is over. It's giving way to a more muscular foreign policy than I've been… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Many people in Britain will regard the end of combat in Afghanistan as a very good news story, but for many young… — Philip Hammond Copy Share Image
There is no battle space the U.S. Military cannot access. They said we couldn't do Afghanistan. We did it with ease. They… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
“Despite everything that has befallen us, do we not continue to hold the destiny of this shattered and magnificent nation, together with… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
I'm a lucky boy! I could be holding a gun in Afghanistan. There's boys out there doing what they've got to do,… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
For those 10 months back in Afghanistan after university, I felt I had no rights. It felt like I didn't exist. It… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
Did you hear this? They say now Osama bin Laden and his buddy Mullah Omar have left Afghanistan dressed as women. They… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Obviously what I think Senator [John] Kerry was pointing to, which is absolutely correct, which is the essential part of the strategy… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand,… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf Copy Share Image
The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
There is Pakistan's relationship with Afghanistan which will also be a very tricky issue in the coming years. Then there is a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
One only has to look at the debacle that has unfolded in Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. troops at the end… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
When you go and you tour Europe, or you go and you tour Egypt, or you go and you tour Iraq, or… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan you are not rebuilding, you are building. There is very limited infrastructure and extreme terrain, with deserts in the south… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
What bin Laden had hoped to achieve in Afghanistan in the post-9/11 period, which was to drag the United States into a… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
“When I come back from Afghanistan, I don’t want you here. I don’t …” He paused and took a deep breath. “I’ve… — Kate McCarthy Copy Share Image
Let's take Pravda in the 1980s. I mean you could have read things in Pravda saying that it was a stupid error… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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