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The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

~Chuck Hagel

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My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their beautiful embroidery, the women are given financial aid and classes in math and literacy. The scarves are all stunning and one of a kind.

~Claire Danes

Topics: Afghan Afghanistan Aid Beautiful Classes Disenfranchised Embroidery Exchange Financial Financial Aid Friend Gifts Given Hands Kind Literacy Math My Friend Nonprofit Organization Stunning Supports Which Women Women Are

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I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

~Clint Eastwood

Topics: Afghanistan Always Been Britain Great Great Britain Same Successful Token Troops Want

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When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.

~Colin Powell

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I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

~Colin Quinn

Topics: Act Afghanistan Alone Because Empires Feel Fell Graveyard Guess Hand Human Just Kept Look Most Pretty Russia Started Strong Sustain Then You I Feel

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There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime.

~Condoleezza Rice

Topics: Afghanistan Chairman Committed Dangerous Dangerous Place Doubt Fortunate Helping No Doubt Place Provide Regime Security Shows States Still Thing United United States

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Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

~Condoleezza Rice

Topics: Afghan Afghanistan Al Base Bring Democracy Friendly Government Longer Now Operations People Run Trying Qaeda

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We were spending American blood and treasure to liberate the people of Afghanistan from one of the most brutal regimes on the face of the earth. That we would not use that moment to press for women's rights seems to me unthinkable.

~Condoleezza Rice

Topics: Afghanistan American Blood Brutal Earth Face Liberate Me Moment Most People Press Regimes Rights Seems Spending Treasure Unthinkable Use Were Women Would

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We can't afford to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban and the terrorists.

~Condoleezza Rice

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Barack Obama commits war crimes - Somalia, Yemen. He commits war crimes in Pakistan, Afghanistan. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to keep a spotlight on war crimes, to keep track of the innocents killed... There is a major clash.

~Cornel West

Topics: Afghanistan Barack Barack Obama Clash Crimes He Innocents Keep King Luther Major Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Jr Obama Pakistan Somalia Spotlight Track Tried War

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