"Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something……" — Jemima Khan
"Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are unafraid of death and desire martyrdom."
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10 Quotes by Jemima Khan
Jemima Khan has 10 quotes on this site.
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I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.
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In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.
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The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have…
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Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are…
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Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only.
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WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq…
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WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments.
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Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.
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Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks…
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More Afghanistan Quotes
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one of 417 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers…
— Joe Arpaio
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Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in…
— Joe Biden
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I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is…
— Bill Bryson
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there…
— James Buchan
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
— Barbara Bush
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The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and…
— George W. Bush
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I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I…
— George W. Bush
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The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of…
— Steve Buyer
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I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not…
— David Cameron
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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan.…
— Dick Cheney
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When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training…
— Hillary Clinton
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