Actually Quote by Peter Schuyler

“because Afghanistan is no country to fight a war in – and an impossible one to hold if you win.”

— M.M. Kaye

Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for…

— Leon Panetta

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying…

— Condoleezza Rice

Since Bin Laden's death, many Americans have decided that our job in Afghanistan is done. They see a victory in the counterterrorism campaign, and…

— Eric Greitens

We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there…

— Barbara Boxer

“Perhaps it is because no one requires more than a charming illusion of action in the developing world. If policy makers know little about…

— Rory Stewart

A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

To me, what success looks like is not to believe that Afghanistan can become a unified, Western-style democracy with a developed-country economy just yet.…

— Pete Buttigieg

The problem right now, which I've been pointing out very bluntly to American officials in Washington, is that the U.S. has no economic presence…

— Ahmed Rashid

In military terms, if you're not winning, sometimes you are losing. We've seen the Taliban and associated terrorist organizations make gains in recent years.…

— Tom Cotton

America does not hold to the colonial tradition. America came, liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban and al-Qaida, came to an arrangement with Hamid Karzai,…

— Ahmed Rashid