Accepting Quote by Vali Nasr

There are some ideas that will translate from Iraq to Afghanistan and there are many that will not. The first lesson of counterinsurgency, in…

— David Petraeus

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

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

President Obama had voiced strong support for the effort in Afghanistan during his campaign, pledging to add two brigades, which he did. But since…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

[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

President Barack Obama campaigned on a promise to stop endless wars. The military-industrial complex had other ideas, including launching an invasion of Libya and…

— Mollie Hemingway

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

— Pete Hoekstra

Like Obama, President Trump has utilized military strikes, albeit in a limited fashion. Nevertheless, he has invaded no new countries and worked steadfastly to…

— Mollie Hemingway

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

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

— John Abizaid

We had eight years of Barack Obama depleting our military, ignoring a lot of the threats around the world.

— Steve Scalise