Afghanistan Quote by Michael Scheuer

Which is more important in world history: The Taliban or the fall of the Soviet Empire? A few over-exited Islamists or the liberation of…

— Zbignew Brzezinski

The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed largely of…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the…

— James Buchan

In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There is no…

— Bernard Lewis

And the fact that the Muslim world, over the course of a decade, rallied and defeated a superpower is an extraordinary symbol in the…

— Michael Scheuer

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be…

— Michael Hastings

If history is any guide, most Afghans would oppose an American invasion and fight the foreign occupiers, probably with substantial help from 'freedom fighters'…

— John Mearsheimer

It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the…

— William Odom

Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to…

— Martin Jacques

The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing…

— Mark Steyn

You know, terrorism in Afghanistan had everything to do with the support for the mujahidin by Saudi Arabia and by the CIA that sought…

— Jill Stein

Middle Eastern Muslim countries are not only important for Afghanistan due to common culture and faith, but also because of economic benefits.

— Ashraf Ghani