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" According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. "

Zbigniew Brzezinski

" A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home. "

" Afghanistan is a land-locked country. "

Lakhdar Brahimi

" Afghanistan is doomed if women are barred once again from public life. "

Khaled Hosseini

" Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations - including counterterrorism operations - in Iraq. "

" Afghanistan's story, backwards or sideways, is not confined to the Americans or the English. "

" A key flaw of the Obama administration's approach to Afghanistan has been constantly announcing proposed withdrawal dates for U.S. forces, which has enabled the Taliban to believe they can simply wait out the clock. "

Peter L. Bergen

" A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan. "

" A notorious network of violent Islamist hoodlums, concentrated in the rough-and-tumble district of Molenbeek in Brussels, has been operating in plain sight since the 1990s, planning, plotting and carrying out dozens of elaborate jihadi missions from Afghanistan to Algeria. "

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

" But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan. "

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

" Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses. "

" Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Centcom, is probably the most decorated officer of his generation. "

" I do dream about Afghanistan. I wake up and think I'm still there. "

" I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no. "

" If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves. "

Michael T. Flynn

" If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan. "

" 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

" I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country. "

" I'm not good at explaining why I walked across Afghanistan. "

" India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there. "

Joschka Fischer

" I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense. "

" It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back. "

Hillary Clinton

" I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can. "

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

" I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular. "

Christopher McQuarrie

" I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan. "

Peter Landesman

" I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been. "

" Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations. "

" Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11. "

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