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They stood shoulder by shoulder with the Americans to achieve their mission, now it’s America’s time to stand shoulder by shoulder with Afghans who worked with them, who risked their lives. – Besmellah Khuram	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
We share a common humanity with these Afghans whose desperation, whose fear, whose concern... they wear it on their faces. – The State Department spokesman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They are searing, they are painful, they are difficult to see, they are difficult to watch, we share a common humanity with these Afghans whose desperation, whose fear, whose concern... they wear it on their faces. – The State Department spokesman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Job number one is for us to bring back, first, all American personnel ... But second, all of the brave Afghans who helped our military, they have to be provided an exit to come to America. – Chuck Schumer	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
This designation expands the opportunity to permanently resettle in the United States to many thousands of Afghans and their immediate family members who may be at risk due to their U.S. affiliation but who are not eligible for a Special Immigrant Visa( SIV) because they did not have qualifying employment, or because they have not met the time-in-service requirement to become eligible, the U.S. objective remains a peaceful, secure Afghanistan. – The State Department	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If we break those promises, if we betray those and abandon those who served alongside us, people are going to remember that, not only those Afghans we betray, but also, in any potential future conflict, we are going to be looked at as a country that doesn’t keep our promises, that will cut and run, that will turn our backs on our allies, that will, frankly, be a country that can’t be trusted.I think that will be incredibly detrimental to our national security in the long term. – Peter Meijer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s not the kindest parting gift for Afghans, including those taking over the base. – Michael Kugelman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's a generation of young Afghans who have tried to build a future for themselves, around our model, and we're now walking away, if the country collapses into anarchy and chaos, do we owe them nothing ? – Stephen Biddle	Found on CNN 3 years ago
One has to pretty much expect that the Taliban will do very well -- there will be civil war there for some time, I suspect -- and so the next big question is, will Stephen Biddle open Stephen Biddle doors to people who sided with us and put Stephen Biddle faith in us ? there's a generation of young Afghans who have tried to build a future for themselves, around our model, and we're now walking away. – Stephen Biddle	Found on CNN 3 years ago
President Trump deserves major credit -- major credit -- for reducing Michael McCaul forces in Afghanistan to a sustainable level, scoring major victories against terrorists across the region and ensuring the Afghans themselves are at the front of the fight, that same successful approach should continue until the conditions for long term defeat of ISIS and al Qaeda have been achieved. – Michael McCaul	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Afghanistan deserves a chance to enjoy the security that comes from peace and stability, this will only happen if Afghans join together to embrace this opportunity. – Defense Mark Esper	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is not how I envisioned (the war) ending, but I believe it is a possible solution if certain conditions are met. I believe it is absolutely imperative that protections for the equal rights of women are specific, state conditions of the agreement, it is crucial that there [is] no revenge or retaliation against the Afghans who worked with U.S. and Allied Forces they are still at great risk. – Mariah Smith	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Afghans have been bitten by this snake before. – The Taliban	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We are at the threshold of an agreement that will reduce violence and open the door for Afghans to sit together to negotiate an honorable and sustainable peace and a unified, sovereign Afghanistan that does not threaten the United States, its allies, or any other country. – Zalmay Khalilzad	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Afghans are being used as pawns by all foreign countries and militant groups to prove their strength. – Mohammad Ashraf	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Embassy in Kabul had grown fairly large over the past decade, particularly as the number of violent incidents spiked in Kabul and it became necessary to increase security to ensure that diplomats could conduct routine business, i can understand some kind of reduction, but I would be concerned if a drawdown impeded our diplomats' ability to observe local events and interact with Afghans. We should not cut costs if it means we lose these vital connections. – Embassy Kabul	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Trump's policy that Donald Trump does not want to play the role of a police officer in Afghanistan and that this war against an entire nation can not be won so long as they are alive is something positive, however, Donald Trump claim that Donald Trump can wipe out Afghanistan, kill 10 million Afghans and win this war through such a method is irresponsible and we condemn it in the strongest terms. – Zabihullah Mujahid	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Afghans have to decide what Afghanistan looks like. Its not about the U.S., its about Afghanistan. – Jim Mattis	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I think the longer the U.S. troops stay there, the less the chance of there being a political settlement, i think the Afghans, you know, if the U.S. even gives a timetable of withdrawal, and then gets the Afghans on the table, and then with the neighbors also chipping in, I think that is the best chance of peace. – Imran Khan	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I am clear that we cannot live here anymore, our religious practices will not be tolerated by the Islamic terrorists. We are Afghans. The government recognizes us, but terrorists target us because we are not Muslims. – Baldev Singh	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It’s occurring at multiple levels. So you see mid-level, senior-level Taliban leaders engaging with Afghans. – Army Gen. John Nicholson	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Both had polio and were paralyzed, they defamed the name of Afghans. This is a terrorist attack. – Rais Abdul Khaliq	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We need to understand why U.S. and Afghan anticorruption efforts have consistently fallen short of their objectives, we need to understand how U.S. policies and practices unintentionally aided and abetted corruption, while fostering the perception among Afghans that the international-assistance effort is itself corrupt. – John Sopko	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
This year, we're seeing more tactical success (by the Afghans) on the battlefield but more casualties as well. – John Nicholson	Found on Reuters 7 years ago

They stood shoulder by shoulder with the Americans to achieve their mission, now it’s America’s time to stand shoulder by shoulder with Afghans who worked with them, who risked their lives.

– Besmellah Khuram

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

We share a common humanity with these Afghans whose desperation, whose fear, whose concern... they wear it on their faces.

– The State Department spokesman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They are searing, they are painful, they are difficult to see, they are difficult to watch, we share a common humanity with these Afghans whose desperation, whose fear, whose concern... they wear it on their faces.

– The State Department spokesman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Job number one is for us to bring back, first, all American personnel ... But second, all of the brave Afghans who helped our military, they have to be provided an exit to come to America.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

This designation expands the opportunity to permanently resettle in the United States to many thousands of Afghans and their immediate family members who may be at risk due to their U.S. affiliation but who are not eligible for a Special Immigrant Visa( SIV) because they did not have qualifying employment, or because they have not met the time-in-service requirement to become eligible, the U.S. objective remains a peaceful, secure Afghanistan.

– The State Department

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If we break those promises, if we betray those and abandon those who served alongside us, people are going to remember that, not only those Afghans we betray, but also, in any potential future conflict, we are going to be looked at as a country that doesn’t keep our promises, that will cut and run, that will turn our backs on our allies, that will, frankly, be a country that can’t be trusted.I think that will be incredibly detrimental to our national security in the long term.

– Peter Meijer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s not the kindest parting gift for Afghans, including those taking over the base.

– Michael Kugelman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's a generation of young Afghans who have tried to build a future for themselves, around our model, and we're now walking away, if the country collapses into anarchy and chaos, do we owe them nothing ?

– Stephen Biddle

Found on CNN
3 years ago

One has to pretty much expect that the Taliban will do very well -- there will be civil war there for some time, I suspect -- and so the next big question is, will Stephen Biddle open Stephen Biddle doors to people who sided with us and put Stephen Biddle faith in us ? there's a generation of young Afghans who have tried to build a future for themselves, around our model, and we're now walking away.

– Stephen Biddle

Found on CNN
3 years ago

President Trump deserves major credit -- major credit -- for reducing Michael McCaul forces in Afghanistan to a sustainable level, scoring major victories against terrorists across the region and ensuring the Afghans themselves are at the front of the fight, that same successful approach should continue until the conditions for long term defeat of ISIS and al Qaeda have been achieved.

– Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Afghanistan deserves a chance to enjoy the security that comes from peace and stability, this will only happen if Afghans join together to embrace this opportunity.

– Defense Mark Esper

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is not how I envisioned (the war) ending, but I believe it is a possible solution if certain conditions are met. I believe it is absolutely imperative that protections for the equal rights of women are specific, state conditions of the agreement, it is crucial that there [is] no revenge or retaliation against the Afghans who worked with U.S. and Allied Forces they are still at great risk.

– Mariah Smith

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Afghans have been bitten by this snake before.

– The Taliban

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We are at the threshold of an agreement that will reduce violence and open the door for Afghans to sit together to negotiate an honorable and sustainable peace and a unified, sovereign Afghanistan that does not threaten the United States, its allies, or any other country.

– Zalmay Khalilzad

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Afghans are being used as pawns by all foreign countries and militant groups to prove their strength.

– Mohammad Ashraf

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Embassy in Kabul had grown fairly large over the past decade, particularly as the number of violent incidents spiked in Kabul and it became necessary to increase security to ensure that diplomats could conduct routine business, i can understand some kind of reduction, but I would be concerned if a drawdown impeded our diplomats' ability to observe local events and interact with Afghans. We should not cut costs if it means we lose these vital connections.

– Embassy Kabul

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Trump's policy that Donald Trump does not want to play the role of a police officer in Afghanistan and that this war against an entire nation can not be won so long as they are alive is something positive, however, Donald Trump claim that Donald Trump can wipe out Afghanistan, kill 10 million Afghans and win this war through such a method is irresponsible and we condemn it in the strongest terms.

– Zabihullah Mujahid

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The Afghans have to decide what Afghanistan looks like. Its not about the U.S., its about Afghanistan.

– Jim Mattis

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I think the longer the U.S. troops stay there, the less the chance of there being a political settlement, i think the Afghans, you know, if the U.S. even gives a timetable of withdrawal, and then gets the Afghans on the table, and then with the neighbors also chipping in, I think that is the best chance of peace.

– Imran Khan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I am clear that we cannot live here anymore, our religious practices will not be tolerated by the Islamic terrorists. We are Afghans. The government recognizes us, but terrorists target us because we are not Muslims.

– Baldev Singh

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It’s occurring at multiple levels. So you see mid-level, senior-level Taliban leaders engaging with Afghans.

– Army Gen. John Nicholson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Both had polio and were paralyzed, they defamed the name of Afghans. This is a terrorist attack.

– Rais Abdul Khaliq

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We need to understand why U.S. and Afghan anticorruption efforts have consistently fallen short of their objectives, we need to understand how U.S. policies and practices unintentionally aided and abetted corruption, while fostering the perception among Afghans that the international-assistance effort is itself corrupt.

– John Sopko

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This year, we're seeing more tactical success (by the Afghans) on the battlefield but more casualties as well.

– John Nicholson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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