Taliban Quotes

Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country. Philip Hammond
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Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided. Richard Engel
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The Taliban mostly attacks international and Afghan security forces. They rarely carry out attacks in markets. Richard Engel
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The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not. Richard Engel
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I've dealt with the Taliban and al Qaeda. Richard Ojeda
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Big Pharma's the Taliban... They're Al Qaeda. Richard Ojeda
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You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me kicked out of Afghanistan?' Robert M. Gates
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it. Sam Harris
You Could Fails Taliban Conception Well-Being Patently Maximize Any Human
Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
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Defeat the Taliban. Secure the population. Stanley A. McChrystal
Defeat Secure Taliban Population
I was traumatised in the medieval Afghan society at Sarana village by the local boys of Omar's Taliban who forced my in-laws to subjugate me for trying to be different. There can be Omars in other religions, too, who oppress women. Sushmita Banerjee
Me Women Society Too Other Local Religions Be Different Taliban Forced Boy Oppress Subjugate Trying Afghan Different In-Laws Who Village Medieval Omar
The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past. Sushmita Banerjee
Past Despite Taliban Lot Friendly Afghans Barbaric
On Sept. 20, 2011, a year after I spoke with Rabanni, a couple of Taliban emissaries arrived at his Kabul fortress with a gift for his 71st birthday. It turned out not to be the truce offering they had claimed they were bringing: one of the Talibs had a bomb hidden in his turban. Terry Glavin
Birthday Gift Year Hidden Claimed Out Had Truce Spoke Taliban Couple Arrived Were His Offering After Turned Fortress Sept Bomb Bringing
It's true that since 9/11, the application of conventional military rules of engagement has gotten a bit foggy. The Taliban were not an 'enemy state,' but the Canadian Forces conducted its operations in Afghanistan as though the rules of war applied anyway. Terry Glavin
War Enemy Military State Bit Rules Though Foggy True Since Taliban Forces Operations Gotten Were Canadian Afghanistan Conventional Anyway Engagement Application Applied
The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone. Tina Brown
Fear Girl More Taliban Knows Educated Than American
Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Taliban are unemployed war veterans, ready and even eager to return to the battlefield. William T. Vollmann
War Veterans Will Fears Become Worry Everywhere Battlefield Soon Hijacking Taliban Return Islamic Ready Unemployed American Afghanistan Afghans Dish Fanaticism Which Planes Even Eager Bombing Necessarily
Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible oppression of women in Gulf states, and the mass hanging festivals in Iran? Yair Lapid
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President Trump should appoint a special presidential envoy and empower them to wage an unconventional war against Taliban and Daesh forces, to hold the corrupt officials accountable and to negotiate with their Afghan counterparts and the Afghan Taliban that are willing to reconcile with Kabul. Erik Prince
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After 9/11, a few hundred CIA and Special Operations personnel, backed by airpower and Afghan militias, devastated Taliban and al-Qaeda forces. That effort has since turned into a conventional Pentagon nation-building exercise and gone backward. Erik Prince
CIA Few Gone Hundred Backed Backward Pentagon Devastated Since Taliban Forces Operations Exercise Nation-Building Effort Afghan Conventional After Personnel Turned Special Al-Qaeda
When the United States first went into Afghanistan in 2001, it devastated the Taliban and Al Qaeda in a matter of weeks using only a few hundred C.I.A. and Special Operations personnel, backed by American air power. Later, when the United States transitioned to conventional Pentagon stability operations, this success was reversed. Erik Prince
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans. Salman Rushdie
Suffering People Most Taliban Were Afghans
Courts are grappling with what it means to be 'part of' al Qaida or the Taliban - every case poses a unique challenge, involving individuals with a different degree and type of connection to these terrorist organizations. Tony West
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It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back. Hillary Clinton
People Back Clear Taliban Very Afghanistan Want
I'm not sure whether a person can really gauge the quality of his work by the enemies he's made, but if I somehow upset Hamas and the Taliban and Henry Waxman, I must have done something right. Erik Prince
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