Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of… — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
We [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] support and fund projects that bring jobs, healthcare, and education to women and children. In addition,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My family left Afghanistan in 1976, well before the Communist coup and the Soviet invasion. We certainly thought we would be going… — Khaled Hosseini 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
If the Taliban comes back to power, the impact would be devastating. A country that has made great strides, in terms of… — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
I think it was fully justified after 9/11 to initiate a military action against Afghanistan, because we hoped to create a democracy,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Australia is this former British colony at the foot of Asia. We've been involved - we've been in lockstep with America in… — Richard Glover Copy Share Image
“Honestly, I had no idea how to respond. My senior year of college I’d taken a seminar titled Public Education: Situations and… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
We're interested in it because it would provide a land bridge up to Uzbekistan, which provides us, among other things, a humanitarian… — Tommy Franks Copy Share Image
There are no barriers to entries. Think of this as Linux in terms of software. Anyone can have part of the operating… — Paul Gigot Copy Share Image
In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
When I read about women living under the Taliban, I really wanted to travel there and see for myself: Is it that… — Lynsey Addario 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
“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
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
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
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
I was in Afghanistan and then obviously in Iraq. And I realized that you can't control life. You can do a lot… — Nathaniel Fick Copy Share Image
The president made clear when he was a candidate for this office and when he took this office, that unfortunately prior to… — Jay Carney Copy Share Image
We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
It is unacceptable that private groups working tirelessly to save lives in Afghanistan have hit bureaucratic roadblocks and red tape prohibiting them… — Young Kim Copy Share Image
“ Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what they're all going to face, whichever one of them becomes president on January 21st of 2009. They will… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
I've been to Iraq three times. I've been to Afghanistan, I've been quite a few places, and I want to tell you… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
There is still a desperate need for investment and promotion of education in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Official figures put Pakistan literacy… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
The blow back from the cold war is that a weakened Russia allowed Afghanistan to become a failed state, and then all… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
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