[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.
Afghanistan fortunately is one of the richest countries in terms of water, mineral resources, location and human capital.
After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.
The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.
Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
The public and private sectors in Afghanistan must work together to create an ICT-educated workforce.
Osama bin Laden is gone. The war in Iraq is over. Afghanistan is coming to a close.
The Afghan security forces will always have the help of the U.S. American military to ensure that Afghanistan never fails.
Let's withdraw from Afghanistan and have the army invade America - that's the only way we'll get new schools and roads.
It isn't true, in any conventional meaning of the term, that the United States or its NATO partners 'invaded' Afghanistan.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are not mere neighbours, we are more than that, we are connected by Muslim bond of brotherhood.
I was happy to be in Afghanistan, doing these real-world operations and taking the fight to the terrorists that attacked us.
Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.
While my mother is from Jammu, my father was originally from Afghanistan, as my grandfather was the governor of five provinces there, including Herat.
Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.
My fight-or-flight mechanism... had served me well in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and all the places I'd been.
If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.
The fact is that Germany is taking on its responsibility in the world - in the fight against IS, but also in the Middle East, in Africa and in Afghanistan.
Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.
I was no stranger to risk myself, having made documentaries in dangerous conditions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Africa.
At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.
There's no excuse for the macro corruption, but Afghanistan was always an informal society with a weak central government.
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.
It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
My sister Pam and I were raised on the North West Frontier of India, on the border with Afghanistan.
It still puts burden on some troops of ours who are there [in Afghanistan and Iraq] as advisors and facilitators.
Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf).
After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
A Pakistan that falls apart, becomes a failed state, would be of extraordinary danger to Afghanistan and to America.
I coached Afghanistan for seven months. Out of those, I spent five and a half away from home.
They [U.S. soldiers] are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan.
On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there?and it wasnt.
Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.
In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.
The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.
I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.
In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.
A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
I can't imagine how Afghanistan's fall isn't going to be ten times faster than Iraq's.
America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.
I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.
Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.
I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.
I obviously did not volunteer to go to Afghanistan solely to protect the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.
The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.
I personally was involved in going over to Afghanistan to meet the troops. My father was a marine, so that was just amazing.
Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.
Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.
It's an amazing thing to hear they're finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.
My sense is that General Kayani recognises that a stable and secure Afghanistan is in the best interests of Pakistan.
And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.
I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
What is meant by: "We mustn't give in to the terrorists"? We gave in to them the moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan.
Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too.
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