Cold war Quote by Zbignew Brzezinski

The Western world doesn't really give enough credit to the importance in history of the Soviet invasion and the subsequent war in Afghanistan. For…

— Michael Scheuer

“Within a few short, dramatic months Afghanistan had been catapulted into the centre of the intensified Cold War between the Soviet Union and the…

— Ahmed Rashid

The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule…

— Bulent Ecevit

My opinion of the Russians has changed most drastically in the last week than even (sic) the two-and-a-half years before that. It's only now…

— Jimmy Carter

You know, terrorism in Afghanistan had everything to do with the support for the mujahidin by Saudi Arabia and by the CIA that sought…

— Jill Stein

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.

— Leon Panetta

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

— Khaled Hosseini

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

— Salman Rushdie

“Just as the West’s support for the Afghan jihad against the Soviets in the 1980s laid the ground for the rise of Islamist terrorism,…

— Edward Luce

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

— Khaled Hosseini

“When we went after the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, there was a certain understanding that we had the ability and the right to…

— Jeremy Scahill

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized…

— Leon Panetta