#afghan

We haven't been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan? ↗

— Patty Murray

#been #being #bomb #build #countries

If you're an Afghan village leader in a small town down around Kandahar somewhere, and you know that the footprint is getting smaller for your security, and the Taliban saying don't forget, I'm going to be back real soon, who is your loyalty going to go through? ↗

— Mike Rogers

#around #back #down #footprint #forget

We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were. ↗

— Brit Hume

#already #away #because #big #big difference

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease. ↗

— Aberjhani

#inspiration #iraq #peace #philosophy #september-

We don't want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism. ↗

— John R. Allen

#again #al #becoming #down #facilitate

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#defeated #did #faith #like #sophisticated

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#also #assumed #canada #established #military

The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#america #debt #deployments #gratitude #immense

Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#canada #continued #major #major role #play

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years. ↗

— John Major

#afghan #ago #back #britain #come