White house Quote by Gregory Feifer

“the USSR, far from having engineered the April 1978 communist seizure of power in Kabul, and plotting then to send in troops as part…

— Fred Halliday

The president made clear when he was a candidate for this office and when he took this office, that unfortunately prior to his taking…

— Jay Carney

Inside the White House there were always extreme amounts of doubt about whether they should be escalating in Afghanistan. In fact, most of the…

— Michael Hastings

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

No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact…

— Allen West

“Almost everything about Afghanistan was troubling Mullen. As Obama was giving intense focus on the war, Mullen was feeling more personal responsibility. Afghanistan had…

— Bob Woodward

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

— John R. Allen

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

— Khaled Hosseini

At least, it is encouraging to me that President [Barack] Obama has put Afghanistan front and center in this broader so-called War on terror,…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Lost Decency (a memoir) covers three phases of Afghanistan's last 50 years (Where it was? What Happened and Where it is headed?)”

— Atta Arghandiwal

Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought…

— Gary Johnson

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan.…

— Bob Graham