#afghan

There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#clear #commitment #enable #firm #ideas

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#afghanistan #anymore #leave #playground #possible

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

#away #being #compromised #equipment #franks

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war. ↗

— James Buchan

#attack #cold #cold war #felt #few

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#afghanistan #been #benefited #better #bring

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#allies #america #bush #did #doctrine

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security. ↗

— David Cameron

#afghanistan #clear #create #democracy #frankly

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

#bay #began #captured #combatants #complained

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job? ↗

— Tina Fey

#afghanistan #ankles #get #government #here

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it. ↗

— Helen Clark

#countries #earth #focus #issue #need