#afghan

If you're an Afghan village leader in a small town down around Kandahar somewhere, and you know that the footprint is getting smaller for your security, and the Taliban saying don't forget, I'm going to be back real soon, who is your loyalty going to go through? ↗

— Mike Rogers

#around #back #down #footprint #forget

We can't stay in Afghanistan forever. ↗

— James F. Amos

#forever #stay

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#challenges #commitment #in the past #now #our

I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#get #i #i can #iraq #much

The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen - are important. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#afghan #after #behind #book #came

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#constitution #country #culture #described #family

Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job. ↗

— Jim Talent

#crises #effort #executive #experience #given

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable. ↗

— Laura Bush

#around #elections #including #just #look

We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere. ↗

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

#beacon #been #calling #democracies #eastern

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#bob-woodward #government #military #obama-s-war #war