"The biggest mistake Barack Obama could have made is to change quite a few things in his Afghanistan policy. He increased the number of troops and at the same time set the US withdrawal date to 2014. Now the United States has to ensure that Afghanistan does not immediately collapse after being left to itself in 2014."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Ahmed Rashid

#Mistake Quotes #Afghanistan Quotes #Policy Quotes

“I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod.”
“Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.”
“I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.”
“I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.”

Source : Robert Mapplethorpe, Germano Celant, Hayward Gallery (1996). “Mapplethorpe”
“Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.”
“When you travel with the president, especially when you are traveling to foreign countries, the people that you travel with really become your family pretty quick. ... Most of the people who travel with me, they knew when I would get a stomachache.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.”

Source : Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (fl. 1753) (1754). “The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes”, p.80
“Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.”

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