#afghanistan

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#country #devastated #more #natural #natural resources

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#afghanistan #because #complex #complexity #culture

Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#because #continue #country #day #do you know

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

#afghanistan #been #films #get #history

The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#afghanistan #buddhas #destroyed #get #had

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#business #device #did #dirty #horrible

There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#between #border #iran

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come. ↗

— George McGovern

#afghanistan #another #come #concern #deep

I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity. ↗

— Michael Mullen

#center #central #certainly #counterinsurgency #everybody

The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan. ↗

— Michael Mullen

#al-qaeda #defeat #dismantle #disrupt #haven