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If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different.
Henry Rollins
You
People
Will
Worried
Say
Would
Would-Be
About
Taliban
Concern
Forces
Operational
Leave
America
American
Afghan
Going
Afghan People
Afghanistan
Different
Much
Presence
It is imperative that Afghanistan cricket does well. You cannot imagine how passionate Afghanistan's fans are and how they live and die by every result.
Inzamam-ul-Haq
You
Result
Fans
Live
Every
Cricket
Imperative
Well
Does
How
Passionate
Die
Afghanistan
Cannot
Imagine
I coached Afghanistan for seven months. Out of those, I spent five and a half away from home.
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Home
Half
Seven
Months
Spent
Those
Out
Five
Afghanistan
Coached
Away
A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
Iqbal Quadir
Government
Military
Anathema
Tribes
Hierarchy
Diverse
Afghanistan
Population
The rapid proliferation of cell phones in Afghanistan proves that anything that adds value to people's lives spreads like brushfire - and commerce is certainly a force that could add value for Afghanis.
Iqbal Quadir
Phones
People
Value
Cell Phones
Add
Adds
Proliferation
Rapid
Could
Like
Force
Spreads
Proves
Commerce
Cell
Afghanistan
Anything
Certainly
Lives
The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks, and then it disappears into thin air.
Isabel Allende
Conflict
World
Three
Starts
Air
TV
Weeks
Disappears
Becomes
Exist
Exists
Up
American
Afghanistan
Screen
Place
Then
Pops
Sudden
Thin
Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort rose to prominence fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. Afghan territory holds special significance to the group, which is committed to retaking it and re-establishing it as the base of a global movement.
Jack Keane
Journey
Fighting
Rose
Group
Prominence
Significance
Main
Global
Territory
Began
Site
Committed
Afghan
Soviets
Afghanistan
Movement
Where
Holds
Which
Much
Special
Base
Bin
Al
Al-Qaeda
Omar
Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations - including counterterrorism operations - in Iraq.
Jack Keane
Opportunity
Abandoned
Vital
Remains
Counterterrorism
Since
Operations
Deal
Iraq
Blow
Afghanistan
Strategic
Including
Al
Al-Qaeda
We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
Jack Reed
Army
National
Our
Danger
Crises
Having
Preventing
Leaders
Globe
Around
Iraq
Afghanistan
Just
Breaking
Confront
Flexibility
A lot of terrorists fled out of Afghanistan.
James Comey
Out
Terrorists
Lot
Afghanistan
We can't stay in Afghanistan forever.
James F. Amos
Stay
Forever
Afghanistan
Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.
James G. Stavridis
Some
Empires
Afghanistan
Graveyard
Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.
James G. Stavridis
Education
Time
Women
Men
Men And Women
Enter
Security
Security Forces
Would
Percent
Taliban
Period
Read
Forces
Learned
Withheld
Because
Afghanistan
Cannot
Which
Why
Rebuilding Afghanistan is not going to be solved by pouring billions in. Getting rid of the Taliban does not rid us of the problems of fundamentalism and instability.
James Wolfensohn
Problems
Solved
Instability
Pouring
Taliban
Does
Getting
Going
Afghanistan
Us
Rid
Billions
Rebuilding
Fundamentalism
There is close to zero trust in institutions in Afghanistan. The mobile carriers have more trust than the banks.
Jan Chipchase
Trust
More
Institutions
Mobile
Close
Than
Afghanistan
Banks
Zero
The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.
Jared Diamond
Hope
Me
Learning
Books
Possibility
TV
See
Somalia
Magazines
Gives
Main
Main Thing
Like
Remote
Blew
Conditions
Iraq
Up
Afghanistan
Turn
Turn-On
Us
Radio
Media
Thing
Societies
I signed up for military service in the months following 9/11, and later, as a military intelligence officer, I felt called, like so many others, to volunteer for deployment and service in Afghanistan.
Jason Kander
Service
Intelligence
Military
Others
Later
Months
Signed
Following
Volunteer
Like
Felt
Up
Officer
Afghanistan
Deployment
Many
Military Intelligence
Military Service
WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which were much higher than reported.
Jemima Khan
War
Corruption
Military
Wikileaks
Crimes
Hidden
Systematic
Torture
Lied
About
Civilian
Civilian Casualties
Deliberately
Higher
Casualties
Had
Were
Iraq
Than
Reported
Afghanistan
Information
Which
Much
Wars
Exposed
In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.
Jesse Jackson
Home
Democracy
Poverty
Build
Year
Rebuild
Every
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
Reconstruct
Reconstruction
Troops
Protecting
American
Die
Afghanistan
Plan
Many
Violence
Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.
Jim Mattis
Great
Enemy
Our
Cost
Afghanistan
Achieved
Against
Gains
General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.
Jim Talent
People
Circle
Whatever
Interview
Virtues
States
Must
Ability
General
Compromised
Allies
Had
Make
Within
Dealing
Go
Commander
His
Stone
Rolling
Rolling Stone
Represent
Afghanistan
Decisions
Act
Who
Strategist
United
United States
In Afghanistan, I was talking to Afghan elders who were world-weary of a lack of sustained attention from their own government and from the international community to stop problems early.
Jo Cox
Government
Problems
Own
Community
Attention
Talking
Were
Afghan
Lack
Afghanistan
Stop
Sustained
Elders
Who
International
International Community
Early
When I was 13, I read 'Et la paix dans le monde, Docteur?' a physician's account of working with Medecins Sans Fontieres during the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. It was this book that inspired me to work for MSF.
Joanne Liu
Work
Me
Book
Physician
Inspired
Read
La
Account
Soviet
Afghanistan
Working
Presence
What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That's what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Jocko Willink
Good
You
Battle
Communicate
Understanding
Field
Small
Instruction
Knowing
Course
Makes
Ready
How
Iraq
Shoot
Getting
Afghanistan
Move
Taught
Being
Maneuver
Deployment
Warfare
Seal
Unit
Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?
Joe Biden
Sense
Every
Spending
Weapons
Almost
Almost All
Make
Does
Dollar
Afghanistan
Strategic
Pakistan
Al
Al-Qaeda
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.
Joe Biden
Love
War
Me
Book
Knows
Afghanistan
Anyone
Traveled
Why
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