#afghanistan

‎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

An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#afghanistan #folklore #proverbs #saying #sufis

It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#drama #the-kite-runner #smile

As they say in Special Forces while in combat! "Keep off the Walls, Watch the Corners, and keep a Good Man at your "Six"! ↗

— U.S.Army Special Forces- John F. Kennedy Special Warefare Center

#cqb #iraq #iraq

Another part of the global war on terrorism that Canada and the United States are working on together is in helping failed states, states like Afghanistan, where people have no voice. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#another #canada #failed #global #global war

And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know they are seeking deadlier weapons - chemical, biological and nuclear weapons if they can get it. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#biological #camps #chemical #fact #get

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#army #barely #before #begins #deployment

Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#customs #life #life

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#blew #books #conditions #gives #hope

Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#american #generally #i #i think #look