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No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone.

~Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Topics: Afghanistan Business Either Father Her Husband Someone Support Uncle Without Woman

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When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the time of Islam's founding more than 1,300 years earlier. Afghan women's lives offered the most visible sign of the imagined past to which Afghanistan's present was to be returned.

~Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Topics: Afghan Afghanistan After Captured Civil Civil War Earlier Fit Founding Imagined Immediately Instituted Islam Laws Lives More Most Offered Past Present Returned Sign Taliban Than Time Visible Vision War Which Women Years

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The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.

~Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Topics: Afghanistan Forgotten Heard Needs Voice Women

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Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the first ones to say that this is not enough of a reason for the world's remaining superpower to remain in their country.

~Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Topics: Afghanistan Ask Country Enough First Reason Remain Remaining Rights Safeguarding Say Sentimental Simple States Stay Superpower United United States Women World

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The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.

~Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Topics: Afghanistan Agree Alone America Among Cannot Conflict Consensus Divided Down End Everyone How Island Military Much Nearly Offering Otherwise Question Rare Should Sides War Wind

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In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.

~Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Topics: Afghanistan Army Back Bureaucracy Centuries Century More Reach Reality Than Two 19Th Century

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The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.

~Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Topics: Afghanistan Forever States United United States Will

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Writers are not obliged to deal with current events, but it happens that the big story of our times - the al-Qaida attacks on New York and the Pentagon, and the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - is being told in some of the greatest books of our time.

~Geoff Dyer

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We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas.

~George Allen

Topics: Afghanistan Appreciative Around Iraq Men Men And Women Offensive Our Overseas Protecting Security Ships Taking Terrorists Uniform Us Whether Who Women World

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I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

~George Mcgovern

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