Afghanistan Quote by John McCain

I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against…

— Ahmed Rashid

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be…

— Michael Hastings

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden…

— Bill Nelson

If al-Qaeda had not had a home in Afghanistan, maybe 9/11 would never have taken place. God forbid if al-Qaeda gets another strong foothold…

— Manmohan Singh

If history is any guide, most Afghans would oppose an American invasion and fight the foreign occupiers, probably with substantial help from 'freedom fighters'…

— John Mearsheimer

The Taliban didn't attack us on 9/11 - Al-Qaeda did. That's why I and other people joined the military - to go after Al…

— Tulsi Gabbard

But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

Osama Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do in…

— Robert Fisk

The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

When the United States first went into Afghanistan in 2001, it devastated the Taliban and Al Qaeda in a matter of weeks using only…

— Erik Prince

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be…

— Michael Hastings

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