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The Taliban is resilient. — Leon Panetta
Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against… — John Podhoretz
Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area.… — Colin Powell
We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country,… — Colin Powell
When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people.… — Arundhati Roy
The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans. — Salman Rushdie
Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state,… — Salman Rushdie
When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's… — Malala Yousafzai
living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts — Kathy Lette
A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and… — Greg Mortenson
[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the… — Christopher Hitchens
It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we… — Arundhati Roy
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.… — Arundhati Roy
I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless… — Meg Cabot
Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons." Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head… — Malala Yousafzai
I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban. — Malala Yousafzai
The change we need is fixing this broken economy from the bottom up.. not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations that ship U.S.… — Joe Biden
The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now well… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which… — James G. Stavridis
Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban… — Teju Cole
The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past. — Unknown Author
In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the… — Noam Chomsky
The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in July 2001, which… — Virginia Postrel
Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American… — William T. Vollmann
I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban. — Malala Yousafzai

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