Afghanistan Quote by David Edelstein

But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about…

— Neil Jordan

A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing…

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not know much,…

— Khaled Hosseini

From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such…

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

The problem right now, which I've been pointing out very bluntly to American officials in Washington, is that the U.S. has no economic presence…

— Ahmed Rashid

“Perhaps it is because no one requires more than a charming illusion of action in the developing world. If policy makers know little about…

— Rory Stewart

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

— Michael Hastings

If you polled the military in Afghanistan as to how many think we should be there or not, the numbers would probably be similar…

— Michael Hastings

The ongoing war in Afghanistan is being imposed on us, and Afghans are being sacrificed in it for someone else's interests. We are not…

— Hamid Karzai

Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.

— Paul Wolfowitz

It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.

— Ashraf Ghani