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The fact that there are no longer large units of Al Qaeda running around means you don't need B-52s. You need intelligence and special…

— Ahmed Rashid

There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable…

— Liam Fox

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

The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe…

— Michael Mullen

The big issue is whether the United States will succeed in its venture of reshaping the Middle East. It is not clear to me…

— Milton Friedman

Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in…

— William J. Clinton

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized…

— Leon Panetta

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…

— Colin Powell

We`re facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has…

— Joe Klein

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation…

— Barack Obama

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the…

— Mohammed Omar

We are not going to succeed because Taliban are masters of guerrilla warfare

— Imran Khan