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In many respects, Afghanistan represents a more difficult problem set. It does not have a number of the blessings that Iraq has in terms of the oil, gas, land of two rivers, the human capital that Iraq built up over the years, the muscle memory of a strong government - albeit one that was corrupted over time.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Afghanistan Albeit Blessings Built Capital Corrupted Difficult Does Gas Government Human Iraq Land Many Many Respects Memory More Muscle Number Oil Over Problem Represents Respects Rivers Set Strong Terms Time Two Up Years

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My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone.

~David Remnick

Topics: Afghanistan Almost Almost Everyone Been Between Crisis Editor Everyone Fraught Histories Involves Iraq My Time Prolonged Seemingly States Time Tragic United United States

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The Helmand area used to be the breadbasket of Afghanistan. There was a time when a substantial number of the grapes we ate came from Afghanistan.

~Des Browne

Topics: Afghanistan Area Ate Came Grapes Number Substantial Time Used

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It will require a sustained military and financial commitment by the international community, working with the government of Afghanistan, to create the environment in which enduring democratic institutions can be established.

~Des Browne

Topics: Afghanistan Commitment Community Create Democratic Enduring Environment Established Financial Government Institutions International International Community Military Require Sustained Which Will Working

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Any American who has spent time in Iraq or Afghanistan will tell you: the closer you get, the less certain you are of anything. If you are in Iraq, if you are in Afghanistan, everything is ambiguous. Everything is murky and gray and uncertain and possibly lethal.

~Dexter Filkins

Topics: Afghanistan Ambiguous American Any Anything Certain Closer Everything Get Gray Iraq Less Lethal Possibly Spent Tell Time Uncertain Who Will You

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I think - I think the real nightmare place now is less Afghanistan than it is Pakistan. I mean, again, Pakistan is this gigantic country, deeply troubled, kind of almost ungovernable, sitting on top of probably 50 or 60 nuclear warheads. Nobody really knows where the warheads are; the Americans certainly don't know where they are.

~Dexter Filkins

Topics: Afghanistan Again Almost American Certainly Country Deeply Gigantic Kind Know Knows Less Mean Nightmare Nobody Now Nuclear Pakistan Place Real Really Sitting Than Think Top Troubled Where I Think

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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know they are seeking deadlier weapons - chemical, biological and nuclear weapons if they can get it.

~Dick Cheney

Topics: Afghanistan Biological Camps Chemical Fact Get Know Matter Nuclear Nuclear Weapons People Seeking Those Thousands Thousands Of People Through Training Weapons Were

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I think we learned a lesson and paid a bitter price when we put troops on the ground on a long-term basis in Iraq and Afghanistan. Let us support a homegrown, indigenous, and locally inspired effort to bring stability to the region.

~Dick Durbin

Topics: Afghanistan Basis Bitter Bring Effort Ground Indigenous Inspired Iraq Learned Lesson Let Us Locally Long-Term Paid Price Put Region Stability Support Think Troops Us I Think

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We need to provide support to those that are fighting ISIS. And we can provide that support: logistically, training, intelligence, air cover. There are many things we have already accomplished successfully. But the notion of sending in rotational troops, as we saw in Iraq in the past, and in Afghanistan, I think we have learned our lesson.

~Dick Durbin

Topics: Accomplished Afghanistan Air Cover Fighting In The Past Intelligence Iraq Learned Lesson Many Need Notion Our Past Provide Saw Sending Successfully Support Things Think Those Training Troops I Think

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Osama bin Laden is gone. The war in Iraq is over. Afghanistan is coming to a close.

~Dick Durbin

Topics: Afghanistan Bin Close Coming Gone Iraq Over War

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