Taliban Quote by Bing West

“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

“Sometimes I think that we should send all of the Killer Mediums to Afghanistan because al-Qaeda wouldn’t stand a chance.”

— Paul Rudnick

It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk of] promoting…

— Walter Isaacson

“There is nothing the Americans can do. Their presence here only fuels the fire of the Taliban hatred. It's as if everybody thinks that…

— Deborah Rodriguez

“locals, build things, try to organize them against the Taliban. The other is our military”

— Raymond Hunter Pyle

No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact…

— Allen West

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

— Khaled Hosseini

“It’s not just the Taliban killing children. Sometimes it’s drone attacks, sometimes it’s wars, sometimes it’s hunger. And sometimes it’s their own family. In…

— Malala Yousafzai

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

— Salman Rushdie

Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say, 'Put…

— Hillary Clinton

There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.

— Barack Obama

“Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand...”

— Khaled Hosseini