"Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic…" — Richard Engel
"Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world."
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Richard Engel
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84 Quotes by Richard Engel
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I think war should be illegal.
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Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy…
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The Arab Spring is over. The days of the protesters with laptops and BlackBerrys in Tahrir Square are long gone.
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For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis…
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Not surprisingly, in most Sunni regions there has little appetite for free U.S.-sponsored elections.
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The U.S. spent years and years and billions of dollars to build the Iraqi army only to watch it collapse…
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For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into world affairs, driving primarily into…
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We should have a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the military, of their sacrifices, of their failures.
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When you look at Syria, and you look at all the militant groups on the ground, there are many groups…
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Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot.
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There are many Israelis who are not keen on Barack Obama - they did not want to see him elected.
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War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in…
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More Afghanistan Quotes
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You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers…
— Joe Arpaio
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Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in…
— Joe Biden
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I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is…
— Bill Bryson
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there…
— James Buchan
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
— Barbara Bush
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The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and…
— George W. Bush
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I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I…
— George W. Bush
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The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of…
— Steve Buyer
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I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not…
— David Cameron
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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan.…
— Dick Cheney
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When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training…
— Hillary Clinton
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