#afghan

No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling. ↗

— Allen West

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Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#afghanistan #doing #festival #film #film festival

If you want to understand what's happening to the situation in a town in Afghanistan, go down to the market. Is it vibrant? Is it safe? That will tell you an enormous amount about the security situation. ↗

— Gus O'Donnell

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Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#al #country #enough #ensure #haven

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#against #budgetary #care #desires #gop

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

— Asne Seierstad

#afghanistan #family #understand

Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#east #i #iraq #kuwait #last

Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights. ↗

— Otto Schily

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Every triumph from patience springs, the happy herald of better things. -From Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy ↗

— Nur ad-Din Ab ar-Rahman Jami

#inspirational #inspirational

That's driven by any number of factors, the most prominent of which have been the combat experience of two major campaigns - one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq - and the ongoing demands of the global war on terrorism. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

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