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At least, it is encouraging to me that President [Barack] Obama has put Afghanistan front and center in this broader so-called War on terror,…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

The president made clear when he was a candidate for this office and when he took this office, that unfortunately prior to his taking…

— Jay Carney

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

The biggest mistake Barack Obama could have made is to change quite a few things in his Afghanistan policy. He increased the number of…

— Ahmed Rashid

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

[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

In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.

— Alexander Haig

Obama sought a strategy of accommodating our enemies, even if they weren't so willing to accommodate us.

— Pete Hoekstra

I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why…

— Jack Keane

“careful deliberation. Parties on all sides agreed that whichever way the president came down, the implications were sure to be momentous. In fact, however,…

— Andrew J. Bacevich

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