Afghanistan Quote by Walter Isaacson

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

— Ann Richards

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some…

— Alice Walker

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

— Michael Hastings

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

I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against…

— Ahmed Rashid

In times of crisis, we are made to feel we should scrutinise our government's actions less closely, when surely that's when we should pay…

— Frankie Boyle

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East…

— Karen Armstrong

The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more…

— Billy Burke

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

— Eric Alterman

After 9/11, we had to look at the world differently. After 9/11, we had to recognize that when we saw a threat, we must…

— George W. Bush

There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or…

— Carrie Brownstein

And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand…

— Donald Evans