Fire Quote by Dan Crenshaw

I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people…

— Chelsea Manning

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

— Barack Obama

The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.

— Brandon Webb

The Taliban are terrible shots. At the end of some long patrols, we'd be walking through the fields and get shot at - and…

— Kyle Carpenter

We have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on the ground.

— Samantha Power

We never had an exit strategy in Afghanistan, at least not one that made any sense.

— Nancy Mace

But we have achieved at least two important things. Afghanistan is no longer a safe haven for international terrorists. We have a strong Afghan…

— Jens Stoltenberg

The U.S. must continue to carefully withdraw troops from Afghanistan at a pace based on assessment of the ground conditions so we do not…

— Brian Schatz

I think it's very hard to fight the war on terrorism if we're in retreat.

— George H. W. Bush

The task [in Afghanistan] is to reduce civilian casualties while still not hesitating to respond to enemies who are trying to kill our soldiers.

— David Petraeus

Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

The United States does not view our authority to use military force against Al Qaeda as being restricted solely to 'hot' battlefields like Afghanistan.

— John O. Brennan