ŷ������

“This world’s anguish is no different
from the love we insist on holding back.”
― Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

“You are going to war! It is no longer a question of if you are going to go, but a question of when. Look around! In a few years, or even a few months, several of you will be dead. Some of you will be severely wounded or so badly mutilated that your own mother can’t stand the sight of you. And for the real unlucky ones, you will come home so emotionally disfigured that you wish you had died over there.”
― Michael Anthony, Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq

“The Iraqi and Afghan wars have not ‘ended.�� Only America's involvement has ‘ended.�� �� When a country leaves a war before achieving victory it is not called leaving. It is called defeat. �� When the decent leave, the indecent win.”
― Dennis Prager, Dennis Prager: Volume I

“I joined the Taliban because they were stronger,' [he] said. 'I'm joining the Northern Alliance because they are stronger now'.”
― Dexter Filkins, The Forever War

“In Dari we say, ''If you sit with good people, you will become a good person. If you sit with bad people, you will become a bad person.”
― Qais Akbar Omar, A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story

“Now we had peace in Kabul, and we did not see blood and corpses and body parts on the streets anymore. But it was an unhappy peace, a frightened peace. We did not know what was going to happen next.”
― Qais Akbar Omar, A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story

“За речкой все, тем более пацаны из ОРБ, твердо знали, что они герои, понимали, что это очевидно и известно в Союзе всем, и по возвращении собирались скромно это отрицать. Сборы оказались напрасными. Никто ничего не то что не знал �� даже не подозревал, даже краешком мысли не касался того факта, что не очень далеко от него несколько тысяч пацанов каждую секунду умирают �� за него, и убивают �� за него, и травятся, и плачут, и сгорают заживо �� за него, за гражданина Советской страны, который об этом даже не подозревает и думать не хочет. Падла.
И всем похер. Всем всё было похер. И это было некруто и западло. Можно было даже подумать, что пацаны умирали и убивали зря, и молчали об этом зря, и героями себя считали зря.”
― Shamil Idiatullin

“If there was a group of men, one of them sipped his chai and told his story, and when he got to a point where he couldn’t continue, the point in the story I most wanted to hear, someone else
took a sip of his chai and began his own story, and so on and so forth, until everyone was given a say and not a single story was actually finished.”
― JAMIL JAN KOCHAI, 99 Nights in Logar

“Ice pellets made ticking noises as they fell, gathering in the folds of Parson's coat like spilled salt. He opened his compass and took a bearing, then sighed. The mist of his breath rose in the cold air, only to get torn away by the Afghan wind. (From THE MULLAH'S STORM)”
― Tom Young

“But the first casualty of the Afghanistan War wasn't truth. That had long before succumbed to the onslaught of Soviet lies about all aspects of life. The all-encompassing brainwashing makes the task of discerning what actually took place in Afghanistan especially difficult. The manufactured justifications that enabled many to close their eyes to the war's unspeakable abuses continue to influence perceptions-although the Soviets had no monopoly in that.”
― Gregory Feifer, The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan

“It would be an irony of history, or another lesson about the unintended consequences about using force, that [Najibullah's] regime would outlive the Soviet Union that was convinced it had a duty to teach the world how to think and live.”
― Gregory Feifer, The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan

“Many young men's more immediate and important problems were abuse from their superior, on top of their material privations. Perhaps nothing more could have been expected of a political system founded on mass murder and preserved with oppression.”
― Gregory Feifer, The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan

“The victory of a reactionary idea is always a defeat for humanity!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Every second I am dying inside, for Ukraine. I'm dying for Afghanistan, I'm dying for Palestine, I'm dying for Kashmir. Even my pen pours blood. And this bleeding won't stop till I put an end to the bloodshed of the innocents.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“A brief look back in history makes it evident that Jammu and Kashmir’s oppression and colonial exploitation started long before the formation of modern India. Ever since its annexation by the Mughal empire in 1589 AD, Kashmir has never been ruled by Jammu and Kashmir themselves. After the Mughals, the region was ruled by the Afghans (1753-1819), Sikhs (1819-46), and the Dogras (1846-1947) until the Indian and Pakistani states took over.”
― Jammu and Kashmir for JK's

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

“After spending time at [Camp] Wilson, which felt like we were at war, Kandahar Airfield looked like an ugly American city filled with lots of European tourists. Soldiers from a handful of nations, thanks to NATO—the Netherlands, the UK, Canada—walked around unarmed and apparently unfazed by the war that was being waged around them. Overhearing their conversations, I got the feeling that their most serious concern was a shortage of coffee at the French PX.

But for the guys who were having to do without, like the soldiers at Camp Wilson, a PX run was a treat. Parking the trucks, the team peeled off their gear and bounded across the street into what can only be compared to a Walmart at home. The warehouselike building was filled with junk food, sodas, magazines, and even obnoxious T-shirts advertising Operation Enduring Freedom.

Only Americans would make T-shirts for a war.”
― Kevin Maurer, Gentlemen Bastards: On the Ground in Afghanistan with America's Elite Special Forces

“Everybody knew that the only way for the United States to get out of Afghanistan was by creating a strong Afghan Army. The 101st called their effort to achieve this shonna ba shonna, translated as “shoulder to shoulder.”
― Kevin Maurer, Gentlemen Bastards: On the Ground in Afghanistan with America's Elite Special Forces

“Perhaps someday I will understand all these things better. Perhaps other will, as well. Perhaps till book will help

Insh'allah.”
― Qais Akbar Omar, A Fort of Nine Towers by Qais Akbar Omar

“Perhaps someday I will understand all these things better. Perhaps others will, as well. Perhaps this book will help

Insh'allah.”
― Qais Akbar Omar, A Fort of Nine Towers by Qais Akbar Omar

“Love makes the old feel young, and it makes the young feel like a child. If you separate the lover from his beloved, they will feel destroyed.”
― Qais Akbar Omar

“My head was always shaved now; I looked like a bald man. I could no longer wear my choice of clothes. I would not watch movies. I could not fly kites. In short, I could no longer be myself.”
― Qais Akbar Omar

“First it was dozen people who were killed. Then it was a hundred. Then a thousand. It was like when a forest catches fire, both the dry and the wet burn.”
― Qais Akbar Omar, A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story

“A broken hand can work, but a broken heart cannot.”
― Qais Akbar Omar, A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story

“I remember the time I had cut a rose from one of these bushes. The owner told me, ''A flower looks happiest on its bush. That is where it belongs.'' Since then, I have never cut a flower, because he was right. But I could not imagine how anyone had cut the heads of these men and women. They belonged on their bodies, I thought.”
― Qais Akbar Omar, A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story

“This garden is not mine, it is God's'' the old man replied. ''He gave it to me for use by those who need it for as long as they want. In fact, He is the owner of everything, and whatever He gives us, it is with us for only a few days.”
― Qais Akbar Omar, A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story

“My name is Steve Eston, I'm from Campbellford, Wisconsin. I was a fort observer in the United States army for just under five years. I deployed to Solder City, Iraq in 2005.,and I am giving back my medals for the children of Iraq and Afghanistan. May they be able to forgive us for what we have done to them, may we begin to heal and may we live in peace for here to eternity.”
― Veterans for Peace

“Now it is a common Kashmiri saying:
Kashmir has moved so far away from India after August 5th August that even Afghanistan was not that far away.”
― Sheikh Gulzar after 5th August......Plebiscite for Kashmir

“You have the watches, but we have the time”
― Taliban

“Maybe this is necessary. Maybe there will be hope when Bush's bombs stop falling. But she cannot bring herself to say it, not when what happened to Babi and Mammy is happening to someone now in Afghanistan, not when some unsuspecting girl or boy back home has just been orphaned by a rocket as she was. Laila cannot bring herself to say it. It's hard to rejoice. It seems hypocritical, perverse.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns