After Quote by Wesley Clark

I think 9/11 was a couple of thousand assholes in Afghanistan who ran rampant and just kind of did their thing and we could…

— Richard Patrick

As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was…

— John F. Kerry

We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned the 9/11…

— David Petraeus

In mid-November 2001, as they moved toward the city of Kandahar, the Taliban's de facto capital in southern Afghanistan, Amerine's team called in airstrikes…

— Peter Bergen

The Taliban didn't attack us on 9/11 - Al-Qaeda did. That's why I and other people joined the military - to go after Al…

— Tulsi Gabbard

Because of you, in Afghanistan we've broken the momentum of the Taliban. Because of you, we've begun a transition to the Afghans that will…

— Barack Obama

Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them…

— Max Cleland

Right now we're on the President Obama plan, and we'll stay with that. And from my perspective, the reason we're there is to make…

— Michael Mullen

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

— Barack Obama

Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought…

— Gary Johnson

After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate…

— Earl Blumenauer

When the United States first went into Afghanistan in 2001, it devastated the Taliban and Al Qaeda in a matter of weeks using only…

— Erik Prince