Afghanistan Quote by Lakhdar Brahimi

If the United States had not intervened in Afghanistan, then obviously, we would have then allowed the attacks of 9/11 to go unanswered. I…

— John McCain

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some…

— Alice Walker

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

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

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

The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the…

— Sebastian Junger

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

While we all would have preferred a different outcome when combat operations in Afghanistan ended, it's important to remember the service and sacrifices of…

— Phil Scott

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

— Michael Hastings

Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too.

— Johnny Carson

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

The Iraq War has thrown such a heavy shadow on Afghanistan that you can't hardly get any news about that now. I went to…

— Toby Keith