Afghanistan Quote by Mollie Hemingway

Now, here we are, and we have Obama in office, and he has drawn down forces in Iraq - which is a plan that…

— Jeremy Scahill

Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States'…

— Ron Fournier

[Barack Obama] is sending more troops [to Afghanistan], but they have also realized that we are not going to win that war through guns…

— Khaled Hosseini

The president [Barack Obama] decided to leave more troops than he had originally planned in Afghanistan. We have a very cooperative government there, with…

— Hillary Clinton

The Obama presidency has seen the U.S. military's elite tactical forces increasingly used in an attempt to achieve strategic goals. But with Special Operations…

— Nick Turse

President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work.

— Vali Nasr

President Obama continues to support war. He continues to remove many basic civil liberties and human rights. He continues to condone drones in Pakistan…

— Mairead Corrigan

Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations - including counterterrorism operations -…

— Jack Keane

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

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his…

— Louis Farrakhan

President Barack Obama campaigned on a promise to stop endless wars. The military-industrial complex had other ideas, including launching an invasion of Libya and…

— Mollie Hemingway

Like Obama before him, Trump will escalate in Afghanistan. Like Obama before him, Trump will lose in Afghanistan. And the rest of us, shamefully,…

— Mehdi Hasan