"What happened to those men and women at……" — Mark Steyn
"What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that's the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas."
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56 Quotes by Mark Steyn
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If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there…
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Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator,…
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If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's…
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Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?
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Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.
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We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely…
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The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.
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Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy…
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There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention…
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Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand…
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Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up…
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The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is…
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More Afghanistan Quotes
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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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