Afghanistan Quote by Ted Rall

Rebuilding Afghanistan is not going to be solved by pouring billions in. Getting rid of the Taliban does not rid us of the problems…

— James Wolfensohn

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

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

We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can be launched…

— Liam Fox

I'm not sure we have the right strategy in Afghanistan. Let me think this over for a few months.

— Barack Obama

There's a sense of desperation in Afghanistan because of the lack of funding and the fact that the U.S. only has a one-track military…

— Ahmed Rashid

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent…

— John R. Allen

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

— Henry Rollins

You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has…

— Khaled Hosseini

President Karzai's regime is not perfect. There are problems of improving governance. But you cannot transform Afghanistan overnight. It is going to be a…

— Manmohan Singh

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

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

— Clint Eastwood