Afghanistan Quote by Michael Hastings

No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact…

— Allen West

The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and…

— Joe Biden

Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end a large…

— Barack Obama

The decision he made with Usama bin Laden was a tactical decision. It wasn't a strategic decision. The strategic decision was made by President…

— Rick Santorum

I did a week-long assessment in 2005 at (then Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld's request. Following our return, I told him that Afghanistan was going…

— David Petraeus

Obama's decision to leave, to not sustain the victory that resulted after eight years of fighting, from 2003 to 2011 in Iraq, was another…

— Michael T. Flynn

The biggest mistake Barack Obama could have made is to change quite a few things in his Afghanistan policy. He increased the number of…

— Ahmed Rashid

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary…

— Daniel Ellsberg

At least, it is encouraging to me that President [Barack] Obama has put Afghanistan front and center in this broader so-called War on terror,…

— Khaled Hosseini

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

— James Reston

Now, six months after he sent the military back into combat to take on the terror group calling itself the Islamic State, Mr. Obama…

— Peter Baker

Foreign policy is painstakingly difficult, and if there is to be anything gained from the experience in Libya, it is how not to conduct…

— Pete Hoekstra