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Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.

~Al Franken

Topics: Afghan Bear Children Cook Fine Focus Grandmothers Our Pray Recall Why Women

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As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

~Allen West

Topics: Advisor Afghan Army Both Carrying Challenge Civilian Desert Enduring Freedom Giving Gravity Iraqi Operation Operations Order Out Served Storm Understand Veteran Who

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Jihad is the Afghan bling.

~Aman Mojadidi

Topics: Afghan Jihad

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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

Topics: Afghan Afghanistan American Born Both Both Worlds Correspond Decade Feel Like Live Maybe Me Myself Nearly Needed Neither Picture Raised Shaped States Them Worlds

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After the Soviet withdrawal, many Afghan Communists had rebranded themselves as Islamists and joined the mujahedeen.

~Anand Gopal

Topics: Afghan After Communists Had Joined Many Soviet Themselves Withdrawal

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In 2012, I received a phone call from the family of Arsala Rahmani, the Afghan senator with whom I'd become friendly. That morning, a gunman had pulled up alongside Rahmani's vehicle, idling in a crowded intersection, and shot him point blank.

~Anand Gopal

Topics: Afghan Alongside Become Blank Call Crowded Family Friendly Had Him Intersection Morning Phone Phone Call Point Pulled Received Senator Shot Up Vehicle Whom

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Afghan human rights campaigners worry that U.S. forces may be using secret detention sites like the one allegedly at Rish-Khor to carry out interrogations away from prying eyes. The U.S. military, however, denies even having knowledge of the facility.

~Anand Gopal

Topics: Afghan Away Carry Denies Detention Even Eyes Facility Forces Having However Human Human Rights Knowledge Like May Military Out Rights Secret Sites Using Worry

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You must keep in mind that Pakistan has suffered the aftermaths of the Cold War, and that Cold War had left deep imprints on our society. We were the worst sufferers from the ills of the Afghan war.

~Asif Ali Zardari

Topics: Afghan Cold Cold War Deep Had Ills Keep Left Mind Must Our Pakistan Society Suffered War Were Worst You

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The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.

~Asne Seierstad

Topics: Afghan Constitution Country Culture Family Fundamental Important Institution Most Pillar Single Society

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If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

~Asne Seierstad

Topics: Afghan Afghanistan Family Understand

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