Afghanistan Quote by David Petraeus

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent…

— John R. Allen

My central objective is, turn Afghanistan's location into a greater asset. Central Asia is becoming Afghanistan's major trading partner. The vision of connectivity is…

— Ashraf Ghani

What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places…

— Barack Obama

I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the…

— Bulent Ecevit

“According to at least one general staff officer, no one ever actually ordered the invasion of Afghanistan. Instead, between December 10 and 30, various…

— Gregory Feifer

The strategy for peace-building in Afghanistan is economic aid, reconstruction, international security forces. On those lines, the U.S. has been extremely slow. And it…

— Ahmed Rashid

When I arrived in the summer of 2009 to command the war in Afghanistan, I entered an effort that was failing. Many Afghans, some…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

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

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

— Barack Obama

“In the years between 2002 and 2009, there was no centralized national military strategy for Afghanistan—none. A strategy refers to a plan of action…

— Rusty Bradley

As president, my goal in Afghanistan will be to complete a successful transition to Afghan security forces by the end of 2014. I will…

— Mitt Romney

There are some ideas that will translate from Iraq to Afghanistan and there are many that will not. The first lesson of counterinsurgency, in…

— David Petraeus