#afghan

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#afghanistan #al #base #bring #democracy

There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#chairman #committed #dangerous #dangerous place #doubt

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we. ↗

— Simon Sinek

#america #country #did #invasion #last

I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change. ↗

— Patti Smith

#across #afghan #agendas #america #board

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#brutalized #criminals #destroyed #killed #land

I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#back #come #ever #i #take

Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#east #i #iraq #kuwait #last

Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights. ↗

— Otto Schily

#also #danger #force #i #i do

The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have focused less on finding the enemy, and more on finding our friends. ↗

— Craig M. Mullaney

#war #education

Every triumph from patience springs, the happy herald of better things. -From Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy ↗

— Nur ad-Din Ab ar-Rahman Jami

#inspirational #inspirational