#afghanistan

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

An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#afghanistan #folklore #proverbs #saying #sufis

Life is Too Short and Memories Are Forever! ↗

— Regulo Zapata Jr.

#africa #special-forces #life

It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#drama #the-kite-runner #smile

First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who's next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?' If these illegal interventions are permitted to continue, the implication seems to be, pretty soon, horror of horrors, no murderously repressive regimes might remain. ↗

— Daniel Kofman

#antiwar-movement #axis-of-evil #despotism #foreign-policy #foreign-policy-of-the-us

The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence. ↗

— Chris Hedges

#blowback #iraq #palestinians #terrorism #violence

As they say in Special Forces while in combat! "Keep off the Walls, Watch the Corners, and keep a Good Man at your "Six"! ↗

— U.S.Army Special Forces- John F. Kennedy Special Warefare Center

#cqb #iraq #iraq

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#asia #broad-based #called #government #me

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

#afghanistan #after #aid #army #began

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest. ↗

— George W. Bush

#believe #free #i #i believe #i believe in