Afghanistan Quote by Richard Engel Download Open image “Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world.” — Richard Engel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Afghanistan Always Islam Islamic World
Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort… — Jack Keane Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Afghanistan, believed by anthropologists to be one of the original historical meeting places between the East and the West, has in fact seen and… — Jenny Nordberg Copy Share Image
For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
There are many Israelis who are not keen on Barack Obama - they did not want to see him elected. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
If you're in part of rebel-controlled Syria, and suddenly your house blows up or a building next to you blows up, it would be… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
There weren't many weapons in Egypt in the 1990s. Police controls on guns were very strict back then. That is no longer the case… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Bin Laden is dead, and most of his friends are dead. But did it need to cost a trillion dollars and two land wars,… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when… — Solomon Ortiz Copy Share Image
The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land. — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
According to a recent Harvard study, $6 trillion, when you include the ongoing healthcare expenses for our wounded soldiers, which is the least they… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
You don't bargain with terrorists. You don't appease terrorists. And anybody who believes that this is about something we've done has to ask themselves… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
“I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. It’s… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes sense. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Thousands of Americans have given their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq upholding their oaths and defending this nation. Chelsea Manning broke her oath and… — John McCain Copy Share Image
