Motivation Quote by Fred Halliday

“All that is very relevant to Afghanistan. To a startling degree, the Politburo’s 1979 deliberations about how to deal with it mirror the Bush…

— Gregory Feifer

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And…

— Simon Sinek

The blow back from the cold war is that a weakened Russia allowed Afghanistan to become a failed state, and then all this weaponry…

— Jon Stewart

“Just as the West’s support for the Afghan jihad against the Soviets in the 1980s laid the ground for the rise of Islamist terrorism,…

— Edward Luce

“Afghanistan—where empires go to die. ”

— Mike Malloy

“the primary focus in Afghanistan was to “win the hearts and minds,” the Vaughns were enraged. The idea that the sensitivities and feelings of…

— Billy Vaughn

Afghanistan is ideally suited for guerrilla warfare, as the Soviets discovered in the 1980s.

— John Mearsheimer

“The Afghan sky, under which the most beautiful idylls on earth were woven, grew suddenly dark with armored predators; its azure limpidity was streaked…

— Yasmina Khadra

It is now well-known that the Taliban's creation was facilitated by the CIA and the ISI as part of the 1980s anti-Soviet war.

— Noam Chomsky

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

“I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory, or as…

— Khaled Hosseini

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

— Robert M. Gates