#afghanistan

The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country. ↗

— Ted Rall

#allied #billion #commitment #country #coupled

We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences. ↗

— Susan Rice

#afghanistan #assuming #consequences #germany #honest

I think we need to get the measurements that Congress has mandated from the White House on how we're going to determine progress in Afghanistan. ↗

— Jeanne Shaheen

#congress #determine #get #going #house

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street. ↗

— John Sununu

#afghanistan #art #art form #back #bad

As we begin to leave Afghanistan, are we fooling ourselves about what we are leaving behind or what we have promised the people of Afghanistan? Especially the women and girls? ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#afghanistan #begin #behind #especially #fooling

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

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

‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#bright #country #education #marriage #smart

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