Despair Quote by Jan Valtin

“The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.”

— Thomas J. Brennan

“The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have…

— Craig M. Mullaney

“I wanted to share the risks the digger in Afghanistan took every day. Whenever I could I joined patrols ‘outside the wire’, walking the…

— John Cantwell

“In Afghanistan, not much is for certain other than an open sky and eventual death. In between the two is family.”

— Jenny Nordberg

“As a hypothetical illustration, let us assume a conflict involving us in Afghanistan.”

— J.C. Wylie

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

— Lakhdar Brahimi

“because Afghanistan is no country to fight a war in – and an impossible one to hold if you win.”

— M.M. Kaye

I'm not good at explaining why I walked across Afghanistan.

— Rory Stewart

“One could drive a schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.”

— David Houston

“It was not the lack of technology, weaponry, or troops that threatened his country’s military. It was corruption.”

— Marc Cameron

“There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats.”

— Kenneth Grahame

“And it helped me too because I could see that away from the politicians and their arguments, away from the suicide bombers and their…

— Andrea Busfield