Afghanistan Quote by Nadeem Aslam

Iraq at one time was actually a functioning government. It's a real state. Afghanistan is not Iraq. It's tribal. It's got a different -…

— Dan Quayle

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

“Lost Decency (a memoir) covers three phases of Afghanistan's last 50 years (Where it was? What Happened and Where it is headed?)”

— Atta Arghandiwal

“Afghanistan—where empires go to die. ”

— Mike Malloy

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

— John R. Allen

I have been to Afghanistan many times, even before the Taliban collapsed. I was fascinated by the country.

— Kabir Khan

The story of Taliban recovery and resurgence begins in the places where they took refuge after 2001. And as long as those leadership structures…

— Chris Alexander

In Afghanistan you are not rebuilding, you are building. There is very limited infrastructure and extreme terrain, with deserts in the south and mountains…

— David Petraeus

The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up…

— Isabel Allende

The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let us not…

— Larry Heinemann

“Afghanistan is a land of widows and widowers, orphans and the missings. Missing a right leg, a left hand, a child,or a mother. Everyone…

— Nadia Hashimi

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.

— Leon Panetta