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Afghanistan's story, backwards or sideways, is not confined to the Americans or the English.
Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.
Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.
Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.
I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.
America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.
I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.
It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.
Afghanistan can't police its borders, and its neighbors give sanctuary and assistance to insurgents.
Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.
The public and private sectors in Afghanistan must work together to create an ICT-educated workforce.
Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.
We stand with the government and people of Afghanistan in their quest for peace, stability and prosperity.
Something that is completely unwinnable. I mean, it becomes unwinnable if we decide to leave [Afghanistan].
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.
A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.
Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.
I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
We can stay in Afghanistan and stabilize the situation, or we can get out and win, or we can get out and lose.
There is close to zero trust in institutions in Afghanistan. The mobile carriers have more trust than the banks.
The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.
Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.
The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.
My sense is that General Kayani recognises that a stable and secure Afghanistan is in the best interests of Pakistan.
[ Iraq and Afghanistan] don't get better, they only get worse. Bombing them has only enabled them to grow and multiply.
Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.
Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.
A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.
I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.
I personally was involved in going over to Afghanistan to meet the troops. My father was a marine, so that was just amazing.
Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.
Whether you are a stay-at-home mum, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.
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.
If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.
Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.
Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.
'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.
We have to be concerned that Russia is also increasing its military influence in Egypt, potentially in Libya, also in Afghanistan.
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.
I am not going to second-guess my old battlefield comrades from Iraq and Afghanistan; each has his own reason for what he has done.
I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.
In Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers signed up intentionally. That's a huge difference from the largely conscripted army of my era.
Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.
The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.