#afghanistan

The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts. ↗

— Russ Feingold

#afghanistan #also #behavior #budgeting #comes

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#afghanistan #any #big #bigger #country

A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#afghanistan #america #congressman #democratically #divide

Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#areas #contribution #croatia #expand #expects

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 #develop #forces #itself #need

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

— Hamid Karzai

#i #look #our #our people #people

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#country #prove #sovereign #states #treating

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

#also #children #families #including #like

We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#afghan people #afghanistan #government #help #pakistan

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us. ↗

— Peter King

#arabia #as far as #dead #either #far