Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.
MOHSEN MAKALBAF

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
CAMILLE PAGLIA

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.
LINDA CHAVEZ

Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.
JURGEN HABERMAS

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.
RUSS FEINGOLD

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.
JURGEN HABERMAS

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.
MOHSEN MAKMALBAF

We haven't been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?
PATTY MURRAY

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.
LOUIS FARRAKHAN

""These have been significant steps in the right direction. Have we got absolutely everything we wanted? Not yet." - TONY BLAIR

"“We’ve lost five staff and our guards have killed thirty-four people in the last month and we’re just a construction company...This isn’t reconstruction, not construction, not even combat construction: this is war.”- WESTERN CONTRACTOR, afghanistan.

"Be prepared to go back to the stone age'"- RICHARD ARMITAGE, to PERVEZ MUSHARAFF, if he did not cooperate in the War on Terror.

"The economy is moving forward. Afghans are hungry. We are tired of war and we want to buy. We want to build."