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“You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.”

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Author:Ed Balls

“I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.”

“This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy.”

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Author:Marsha Blackburn

“Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.”

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Author:Traian Basescu

“I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground is just not sustainable.”

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Author:Bob Corker

“There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.”

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Author:John R. Allen

“Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.”

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Author:Linda Chavez

“Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.”

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Author:Lloyd Cutler

“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.”

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Author:Jared Diamond

“The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.”

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Author:Susan Davis

“Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.”

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Author:Bulent Ecevit

“But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years.”

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Author:Bulent Ecevit

“The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.”

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Author:Russ Feingold

“If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.”

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Author:Robert M. Gates

“I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.”

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Author:Chuck Hagel

“The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.”

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Author:Sebastian Junger

“I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline wasn't terribly active, but it was definitely there. And they swept into power.”

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Author:Sebastian Junger

“You know, I agree with President Obama that in Iraq and Afghanistan, at some point in time, we have to take the training wheels off and we have to allow those countries to stand on their own two feet.”

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Author:Josh Mandel

“If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.”

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Author:Hamid Karzai

“People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.”

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Author:Hamid Karzai

“We are not America. We are Afghanistan.”

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Author:Hamid Karzai

“We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.”

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Author:Hamid Karzai

“The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.”

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Author:Hamid Karzai