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But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It…

— Bulent Ecevit

You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has…

— Khaled Hosseini

We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can be launched…

— Liam Fox

“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

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited…

— Hamid Karzai

There's a sense of desperation in Afghanistan because of the lack of funding and the fact that the U.S. only has a one-track military…

— Ahmed Rashid

In my view, the Western model of influencing the development of third world countries is doomed to failure. The West does not understand how…

— Ahmed Rashid

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War

— Jurgen Habermas

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

I returned to Kabul after a 27-year absence. I came away with some optimism but not as much as I had hoped for. The…

— Khaled Hosseini

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

— Hamid Karzai

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

— Khaled Hosseini