Afghanistan Quote by Jon Stewart

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war in Afghanistan, unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

— Abu Bakar Bashir

My opinion of the Russians has changed most drastically in the last week than even (sic) the two-and-a-half years before that. It's only now…

— Jimmy Carter

The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

For us, the idea was not to get involved more than necessary in the fight against the Russians, which was the business of the…

— Osama bin Laden

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

— Michael Hastings

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

— Jim Mattis

“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

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

— Clint Eastwood

You thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean, you thought that was something worth doing. We didn't check with the…

— Clint Eastwood

In a crisis, we will destroy exactly the weapons. Russia will never again fight on its own territory .

— Sergey Karaganov

We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can be launched…

— Liam Fox