#afghanistan

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead. ↗

— Barack Obama

#actually #afghanistan #ago #al #attacked

I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad... until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#agenda #am #becomes #bloodshed #completing

Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#desperately #destitute #help #inside #million

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#anarchy #away #break #break up #cannot

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

We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#among #anything #convince #country #devastated

Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#army #build #helped #officers #own

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#defence #essentially #go #iraq #self