Afghanistan Quote by Alexander Haig

We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.

— Tammy Duckworth

When I arrived in the summer of 2009 to command the war in Afghanistan, I entered an effort that was failing. Many Afghans, some…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

You thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean, you thought that was something worth doing. We didn't check with the…

— Clint Eastwood

I think we learned a lesson and paid a bitter price when we put troops on the ground on a long-term basis in Iraq…

— Dick Durbin

I'm not sure we have the right strategy in Afghanistan. Let me think this over for a few months.

— Barack Obama

I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the…

— Bulent Ecevit

What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places…

— Barack Obama

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And…

— Simon Sinek

We've been at war for many years in Afghanistan following 9/11. We know that we've got young men and women on the ground now.…

— Rahm Emanuel

We in the West walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the Cold War and left it as a country devastated socially and…

— Bob Ainsworth

Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today,…

— Chris Van Hollen

We've been able to build up the Afghan security forces and stabilize it.

— Barack Obama