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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Rudyard Kipling
You
Women
Soldier
Out
Wounded
Remains
Come
Like
Go
Brains
Left
Up
Roll
Blow
Afghanistan
Plains
Cut
Your
Rifle
Jest
In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.
Malala Yousafzai
War
Tired
Terrorism
Suffering
Women
Conflict
World
Schools
Parts
Go
Women And Children
Afghanistan
Stop
Children
Really
Wars
Many
Pakistan
During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.
Ben Shapiro
War
Result
Election
Richard Nixon
Military
Cold
Cold War
Dramatically
Once
Nixon
Russians
Only
Fell
Globe
Around
America
American
Afghanistan
Moved
Influence
After
Richard
Cuts
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Communists
Serious
You want to see a war on women? Come with me to Iraq and Afghanistan, folks. I've been there 35 times. I will show you what they do to women.
Lindsey Graham
War
Me
You
Women
Will
Folks
See
Come
Been
Iraq
Times
Afghanistan
Want
Show
We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.
Oliver North
War
Government
Democracy
Business
Rights
People
World
Goals
Own
Realistic
Human Rights
Respects
Since
Protects
WWII
Nation-Building
Been
West
Goal
Friend
Very
Afghanistan
Human
Representative
Necessary
World War
World War I
America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.
Henry Rollins
Do The Right Thing
Backbone
Right Thing
Policy
Foreign
Leave
Foreign Policy
America
Afghanistan
Lacks
The Right Thing
Which
Right
Thing
Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
Benazir Bhutto
Government
Me
Peace
Military
Security
Security Threat
Promoting
Threat
Supporting
South
South Asia
Afghanistan
Asia
'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.
Christopher Hitchens
Work
Age
Thought
Back
Liberals
Out
Slogan
Favourite
Some
Instant
Headline
Does
Wobbly
Stone
Stone Age
Quite
Afghanistan
Being
Anything
Shows
Bombed
Bombing
People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see - they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Morning
People
World
Wake Up
Own
Darfur
Muslims
See
Somalia
Outside
Outside World
Feel
Iraq
Wake
Governments
Up
Unfairly
Afghanistan
Being
Repressed
Shot
Who
Sudan
Treated
We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
Narendra Modi
Dreams
Great
People
Fears
Ambition
Others
Shaped
Irrational
Afghan
Afghan People
Afghanistan
Want
It should tell you something that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency invented the Taliban in the early 1990s only because Hekmatyar, its primary U.S.-bankrolled proxy in the war for control of Afghanistan, had proved too bloodthirsty after the Soviets withdrew, even by the low standards of the ISI's ghastly generals in Rawalpindi.
Terry Glavin
War
You
Intelligence
Control
Too
Ghastly
Tell
Something
Invented
Only
Generals
Had
Primary
Taliban
Withdrew
Because
Proved
Soviets
Afghanistan
After
Low
Agency
Should
Standards
Even
Pakistan
Early
Early 1990s
No officer wants to be involved in a justified use of force proven unnecessary after the fact, any more than soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan wanted to make what proved to be the wrong decision in a shoot-don't-shoot situation. Those decisions, even if justified, live with you forever, believe me.
Tom Cotton
Me
You
Decision
Situation
Live
Believe
Soldiers
Those
Unnecessary
More
Fact
Wrong
Wrong Decision
Involved
Force
Make
Proved
Proven
Iraq
Forever
Than
Officer
Any
Afghanistan
Wanted
After
Wants
Decisions
Justified
Use
Even
If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that?
Zbigniew Brzezinski
War
Time
World
See
More
Prospect
Iran
Iraq
End
Up
Than
Role
America
Same
Afghanistan
Same Time
Anyone
Pakistan
Damaging
As well as our relationship with Afghanistan, I am researching the legacy of other European empires - in Africa. We think of those empires as history, but actually, they still haunt our everyday lives in the strangest of ways.
Adam Curtis
Relationship
History
Think
Other
Everyday
Everyday Lives
Our
Ways
Those
Haunt
Empires
Well
Am
Still
Legacy
Afghanistan
Africa
Strangest
Researching
European
Lives
Actually
While my mother is from Jammu, my father was originally from Afghanistan, as my grandfather was the governor of five provinces there, including Herat.
Adnan Sami
Mother
Father
Provinces
Governor
Five
Afghanistan
While
Grandfather
Including
Originally
When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Run
Charged
Some
Crossing
Through
Arrested
Were
Iran
Imprisoned
Afghanistan
Them
Actions
Al-Qaeda
As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
Al Franken
Life
Time
Women
Obligation
Men
Men And Women
Met
Our
Spent
Wounded
Someone
Risked
Troops
Tours
Feel
Limb
Reed
Iraq
Behalf
Afghanistan
Warriors
Who
Deep
If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.
Alcee Hastings
Today
War
Day
Will
Three
Stronger
Past
Typical
Soldiers
Civil
Civil War
Like
Taliban
Continue
Years
Iraq
Get
American
Die
Afghanistan
Anything
Little
American Soldiers
Enhanced
Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.
Alex Berenson
Time
Other
Valley
Spent
Arabia
Jordan
Over
Years
Afghanistan
Among
Vacation
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
Kenya
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
You
Seen
Year
Strategy
Took
Out
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
About
Fact
Absolutely
Casualties
No-One
Highest
Almost
Days
Him
Talked
His
Going
Afghanistan
Appalling
Figure
I taught high school for one year in Deerfield Beach, Fla., and in the end, it was such an enjoyable experience breaking up fights daily, that I decided to return to the combat zone of Afghanistan.
Allen West
Daily
Experience
School
Year
High
High School
Beach
Combat
Return
End
Up
Afghanistan
Taught
Decided
In The End
Breaking
Breaking Up
Fights
Enjoyable
Zone
I looked into corruption in Afghanistan through a work called 'Payback' and impersonated a police officer, set up a fake checkpoint on the street in Kabul and stopped cars, but instead of asking them for a bribe, offered them money and apologized on behalf of the Kabul Police Department.
Aman Mojadidi
Work
Corruption
Money
Police
Car
Through
Instead
Checkpoint
Police Department
Looked
Police Officer
Fake
Up
Offered
Officer
Behalf
Department
Afghanistan
Stopped
Them
Asking
Apologized
Bribe
Street
Set
Maybe to feel like an Afghan I needed to be born and raised in the States, and maybe I needed to live in Afghanistan for nearly a decade to feel like an American. Both worlds shaped me, but neither one of them completely correspond to the picture I have of myself.
Aman Mojadidi
Myself
Me
Picture
Live
Worlds
States
Correspond
Neither
Born
Both
Both Worlds
Shaped
Feel
Like
Decade
American
Afghan
Afghanistan
Maybe
Them
Nearly
Raised
Needed
The existence of the Taliban, in my view, is a tragedy for Afghanistan. We as Americans need to understand our role in helping bring that tragedy about. So I think it's important to look at the stories about why these people are fighting.
Anand Gopal
People
Important
Fighting
Think
Our
About
Look
Taliban
Understand
Existence
Tragedy
Role
American
Afghanistan
Stories
View
Helping
Why
Bring
Need
The central thesis of the American failure in Afghanistan - the one you'll hear from politicians and pundits and even scholars - was succinctly propounded by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage: 'The war in Iraq drained resources from Afghanistan before things were under control'.
Anand Gopal
War
Failure
You
Before
Control
Politicians
Drained
State
Resources
Secretary
Pundits
Scholars
Were
Hear
Iraq
American
Afghanistan
Central
Richard
Deputy
Even
Thesis
Things
A military base in a country like Afghanistan is also a web of relationships, a hub for the local economy, and a key player in the political ecosystem.
Anand Gopal
Key
Political
Country
Military
Local
Relationships
Web
Like
Economy
Ecosystem
Also
Hub
Afghanistan
Base
Player
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