Jimmy Carter Quotes

I think it was fully justified after 9/11 to initiate a military action against Afghanistan, because we hoped to create a democracy, and have a flourishing economy, and to do away with al-Qaida, and to capture Osama bin Laden.

Jimmy Carter

• Afghanistan
• 9/11
• Military Action
• Osama bin Laden
• Al-Qaida

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• The main aim is to prevent the events in Afghanistan from destabilizing the situation in neighboring countries, ... What is happening in Afghanistan goes beyond the boundaries of this country and has regional significance.

  

  Igor Ivanov
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• We are all agreed that it is extremely important that as quickly as possible there is a broad-based multi-ethnic civil administration in Afghanistan.

  

  Jack Straw
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• We don't rule out the possibility of military action and neither in our view should anybody else.

  

  Jack Straw
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• We think that Hillary [Clinton] will be a symbol and a reality for the women of the world, and it's very important because so many - so many underdeveloped countries, not the least of which is Afghanistan, the women of the world need help, and she understands those issues and is a lightning rod for them.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • World
  • Important
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• If you will remember history correctly, even the Second World War was perpetrated by a stateless actor, by murdering the Prince Rudolf, if you remember. And so is the case with 9/11. It was a stateless actor which has made the world go to war.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
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• We had one similar experience with 9/11. That was a matter of hours, but it was more intense, obviously.

  

  Craig Newmark
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• The White House says they will release the Osama bin Laden death photo. Better yet, they're doing it on a set of limited edition commemorative plates.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • House
  • Death
  • White House

• Any military action is definitely out of the question for us.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Question
  • Military Action

• Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary, though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only the invasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do with pipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization of the Middle East.

  

  F. William Engdahl
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• Hang in there, all of you out on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan or on aboard ships in the middle of the ocean.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Ocean
  • Lines
  • Iraq

• If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Different
  • Concern

• If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the most interesting place that I've been to.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Interesting
  • Afghanistan
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• While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Men
  • Iraq
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• There're some places that are more difficult or dangerous to navigate and I wouldn't look forward to going back. Like I'd much rather go back to Afghanistan - which fascinates me - quicker than I'd go back to spend a week walking around Nairobi, Kenya, which is a great and easy way to get yourself killed.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Week

• We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next several years, we expect to drive the number of [polio] cases back down to zero because that is likely to be the second disease after smallpox that we completely eradicate.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Problem
  • Afghanistan
  • Pakistan

• The president Barack Obama decided to leave more troops than he had originally planned in Afghanistan. We have a very cooperative government there, with Ashraf Ghani and his top - his top partner, Abdullah. And they are doing their very best. And the Afghan army is actually fighting. The Afghan army is taking heavy losses defending Afghan territory.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Troops
  • Afghanistan
  • President Barack Obama

• Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say, 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more.'

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Americans
  • Afghanistan

• There's this movie, 'Zero Dark Thirty' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Some have complained that too many 'secrets' were dished out by the intelligence and special operations communities to director Kathryn Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal and their crew, part of a broader pattern of using intelligence for political effect.

  

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• You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

  

  Alan Hirsch
  • Church
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• I was never a DC kid - I went through a phase from, like, 11 to 17 where I would try to buy as many Marvel titles as possible. And '2000 AD' was kind of the sort of sci-fi/punk of British comics.

  

  Edgar Wright
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• Is that Disney magic of pixie magic?" I kid... "It is life magic".

  

  Carrie Jones
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• I think it was fully justified after 9/11 to initiate a military action against Afghanistan, because we hoped to create a democracy, and have a flourishing economy, and to do away with al-Qaida, and to capture Osama bin Laden.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Afghanistan
  • 9/11
  • Military Action