Afghans Quotes

“Even your graffiti artists spray Rumi on the walls”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that international development agencies could safely work under as they improved these ordinary people's lives, we would win their 'hearts and minds' in the classic manifestation of a successful counter-insutgency operation.
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Maybe our Western values world somebe instilled in these people. But in country where the average life expectancy was 42 and with the price of that life coming in contrasting cheap at $10 plus the bonus of martyrdom, or alien values might just as equally not be snapped up.”
― Jake Wood, Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken By War

“In Our Villages - You killed thousands by thousands, after each thousand, You are killing another one thousand.”
― Abed Rahmani

“The people of Afghanistan are a testament to the human spirit and the power of resilience.”
― Ajaz Ahmad Khawaja

“The USA war in Afghanistan taught us that really poor Afghans can defeat the USA military.”
― Steven Magee

“A bunch of really poor Afghans can defeat the USA military.”
― Steven Magee