Asks Quote by Merritt A. Edson

We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned the 9/11…

— David Petraeus

There are some who feel like - that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on!…

— George W. Bush

We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.

— Thelma Drake

With a military American base in our territory, where there could be any sort of weapons, where we have to endure every kind of…

— Che Guevara

Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.

— Halsey

Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police…

— Otto Schily

We cannot continue to ask the brave men and women of our Armed Forces to put their lives on the line to protect our…

— John F. Tierney

Congress and the American people have good reason to fear that we are heading toward another permanent garrison of Americans in a Balkan country…

— John McCain

The question becomes, because we're remotely far away from the territory we're about to bomb, does it make it easier to do it? That…

— Gavin Hood

I think life is hard at the combat outposts, and anything that distracts us from supporting them, in my mind, is something that we…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

We took out the safe haven in Afghanistan, but now there is, undoubtedly, a larger safe haven and we must rise to this occasion…

— Martin O'Malley

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in…

— Colin Powell