Politics Quote by Andrea Busfield

“The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have…

— Craig M. Mullaney

“the primary focus in Afghanistan was to “win the hearts and minds,” the Vaughns were enraged. The idea that the sensitivities and feelings of…

— Billy Vaughn

“Kabul was fairly peaceful now and Grandpa seemed to have started wasting away since the bombing stopped. For the past twenty-three years the excitement…

— Petra Procházková

“In Afghanistan, not much is for certain other than an open sky and eventual death. In between the two is family.”

— Jenny Nordberg

“marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“But the average Kabuli was prepared to sacrifice some liberty for greater security and a measure of dignity. That's what the Taliban promised. It's…

— Marc Vachon

“If we want to understand the people in the foothills of Afghanistan, we may need to try and understand the people in the foothills…

— James Rebanks

“The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots…

— Khaled Hosseini

“As we drove around town I felt like the queen of Afghanistan. People were waving at me and the joy felt by the few…

— Petra Procházková

“In the time before the fighting, before the rockets, before the warlords and their false promises, before the sudden disappearance of so many people…

— Qais Akbar Omar

“I wanted to share the risks the digger in Afghanistan took every day. Whenever I could I joined patrols ‘outside the wire’, walking the…

— John Cantwell