Afghanistan Quotes - Page 4

• Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

  Tom Lantos

  Military, Team, Responsibility

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• The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Country, Real, Commitment

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• From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Iran, Film, Made

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.

  Linda Chavez

  War, Iraq, Rights

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• Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.

  Bob Graham

  War, Years, Iraq

  "Cheney’s Trouble with the Truth" by Robert Scheer, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2005.

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• I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.

  Laura Bush

  Husband, Winning, Iraq

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• The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.

  Jared Diamond

  Book, Media, Iraq

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• It is no secret that many Islamic movements in the Middle East tend to be authoritarian, and some of the so-called 'Islamic regimes' such as Saudi Arabia, Iran - and the worst case was the Taliban in Afghanistan - they are pretty authoritarian. No doubt about that.

  Mustafa Akyol

  Islamic, Iran, Doubt

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• I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

  Barbara Bush

  Country, Mean, Complicated

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• We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there is a myth

  Barbara Boxer

  Style, Democracy, United States

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• Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.

  George W. Bush

  Ambition, Missions, Daring

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• Ironically, many of these people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties in its efforts to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan.

  Edward Said

  People, Effort, United States

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

  Hamid Karzai

  People, Suffering, President

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• 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' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.

  Ron Fournier

  War, Home, Kids

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• People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

  Hamid Karzai

  Children, People, Tough Times

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• Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan to transform her own life and ended up revolutionizing the lives of many of her Afghan sisters. This book made me feel like I was right there in the beauty salon, sharing in the tears and laughter as, outside my door, an entire country changed. KABUL BEAUTY SCHOOL is inspiring, exciting, and not to be missed.

  Masha Hamilton

  Country, Laughter, Book

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• It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don't think that serves our strategic interests.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Thinking, Play, Years

  "Romney Doesn't Scare Obama. This Guy Does" By Chris Jones, www.esquire.com. June 22, 2011.

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• America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.

  Christopher Bond

  War, Iraq, America

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• If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

  Asne Seierstad

  Ifs, Afghan

  "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview with Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

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• There's no place for mob justice in Afghanistan.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Justice

  "NPR's Interview With Afghan President Ashraf Ghani". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 23, 2015.

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• They [U.S. soldiers] are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Children, School

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• Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.

  Hamid Karzai

  Country, People, Needs

  "The Loneliness of the Afghan President: Karzai on His Own". Interview with Aryn Baker, content.time.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I'd play in Afghanistan if they wanted me to!

  Jason Ryles

  Rugby League, Play, Wanted

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• We're not running out of [fixed] targets. Afghanistan is.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Running, Military, Target

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• Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary, though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only the invasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do with pipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization of the Middle East.

  F. William Engdahl

  Oil, Iraq, Office

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