Afghanistan Quote by Ahmed Rashid

If al-Qaeda had not had a home in Afghanistan, maybe 9/11 would never have taken place. God forbid if al-Qaeda gets another strong foothold…

— Manmohan Singh

If the United States had not intervened in Afghanistan, then obviously, we would have then allowed the attacks of 9/11 to go unanswered. I…

— John McCain

I think 9/11 was a couple of thousand assholes in Afghanistan who ran rampant and just kind of did their thing and we could…

— Richard Patrick

There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few…

— Bulent Ecevit

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

— John R. Allen

The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the…

— Sebastian Junger

When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be…

— Michael Hastings

For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to train thousands…

— Victor Davis Hanson

When the United States first went into Afghanistan in 2001, it devastated the Taliban and Al Qaeda in a matter of weeks using only…

— Erik Prince

The Taliban didn't attack us on 9/11 - Al-Qaeda did. That's why I and other people joined the military - to go after Al…

— Tulsi Gabbard

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

— Lakhdar Brahimi