I think that the first point to be made is there is no "solution" in Afghanistan. Solution I put in quotes. We… — Mark Danner Copy Share Image
The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is because no one requires more than a charming illusion of action in the developing world. If policy makers know… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
We have a variety of intelligence and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this year. We've… — Bryan Hilferty Copy Share Image
All the intelligence services of America and Europe know full well that the disastrous attack ( of 9/11 ) has been planned… — Francesco Cossiga Copy Share Image
The whole importance of Iraq is that we have now created two things. One, Iraq is in the Arab heartland in terms… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
The Western world doesn't really give enough credit to the importance in history of the Soviet invasion and the subsequent war in… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
We ought to say, "Occupy Wall Street, not Iraq," "Occupy Wall Street, not Afghanistan," "Occupy Wall Street, not Palestine." The two need… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
“The last two days I’ve been on long bus rides, driven through the countryside on the back of a motorbike, and crossed… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“I felt a hand on my back, movement behind me, my guys making room, someone squeezing into our circle, and then one… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the Left routinely resists, then as now: Americans fought and died in Vietnam for freedom, just as… — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
Afghanistan will, by the grace of God, stand on its own feet in three to four years time. Until then, of course,… — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image
The Israelis have taken a lot of security measures which reduce significantly the ability of Iran to inflict truly severe pain in… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands.… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
[Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The president [Barack Obama] decided to leave more troops than he had originally planned in Afghanistan. We have a very cooperative government… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
Today too, the most important issue in the world is Palestine. If a war breaks out in Iraq, we believe it is… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The U.S. has and still is cooperating with various military dictatorships around the world. Obviously we would prefer to see them democratized,… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Among the achievements celebrated in Trump's first 100 days are the 59 cruise missiles launched at the Syrian airfield from which the… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The American administration is trying to achieve any gain in the shadow of the embarrassment hitting it because of its failures in… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
The bulk of our efforts [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] has focused on helping build permanent shelters for returning refugees who are… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
At CNN, we didn't let candidates' claims go unchecked. So, for example, in an interview with me, when Trump claimed he had… — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
It seems not to matter that we are at the brink of a war that may spread beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
The people who died in the Twin Towers in that terrible crime mattered. The people who were bombed to death in dusty… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
We don't see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and it's a combination both of what the international community can do to… — John R. Allen Copy Share Image
If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
“First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who's next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?' If these illegal interventions are permitted… — Daniel Kofman Copy Share Image
In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari,… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
The reality of Canadian history is that we've been willing to do the important things the world demanded of us: fighting in… — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Counting the numbers of troops is not going to define our success here.There is no military success, ultimately, to Afghanistan. The Afghans… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims… — Bob Graham Copy Share Image