What is meant by: "We mustn't give in to the terrorists"? We gave in to them the moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan.
TerrorismTerry Jones, Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror (2009)Watching 40 million people fall into chaos in Afghanistan because there's no electricity and no financial system - that can't be the strategy of the international community.
Angela Merkel, October 2021American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves.
2021Joe Biden, August 2021Afghan people are just so tired of war.
Khaled HosseiniPeople feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see - they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur.
Iraq, SomaliaMohamed ElBaradei