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afghans america average certainly coverage deceit helping inspires media plenty render wage war
In media coverage of the war, Afghans are often characterized as corrupt and deceitful. There has certainly been plenty of corruption and deceit in this conflict, but why? What inspires these behaviors? In 'Green on Blue,' I wanted to render a world that is often overlooked: that of the average Afghans who are helping America wage its war. Elliot Ackerman
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Lots of Afghans are disappointed and cynical because they feel like people who perpetrated serious human rights abuses have been allowed back in the parliament.
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Because of the regional context, because of where they come from, because of the complexity of the issue, without a strong commitment of the international community the Afghans know that they cannot do it themselves. Emma Bonino
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Because of the international community's failure to provide sufficient security and financial assistance, Afghans are struggling against a resurgent Taliban movement, entrenched warlords, and severe poverty. Afghans have managed to progress despite these challenges, but they need real support, not just rhetoric.
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We're pursuing a strategic partnership with Afghanistan on the case of the United States and Afghanistan where we're going to push toward a future. It is the future that the Afghans desire with the United States. It is a future that the Afghans desire with the international community and we desire that as well. John R. Allen
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This will require programs that ensure the participation of Afghans in the development of the country, while meeting the needs of vulnerable groups and poor regions.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions. P. J. O'Rourke
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When US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in November 2001, Afghans celebrated the downfall of a reviled and discredited regime.
afghans assume based best country envies everybody people strange sympathy towards
As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're the best people in the world and their country is the best place in the world, and it's strange because you go there and it doesn't really look like it, and yet they assume that everybody else envies them. Rory Stewart
campaign life people save twice
We want people to look twice to save a life. That's our campaign slogan. E. O. Wilson
campaigns debt
I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign. Alan Keyes
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We have run a number of campaigns in the past and have worked on a number of war issues, but there's virtually nothing going on on this campus in terms of human rights. This is a timely opportunity to work on a global and local level. There is a big refugee population here in the Syracuse area.
campaigns game looking people
The expectations game can make a lot of difference, ... But people are looking at what the campaigns say much more skeptically this year.
campaigns combat demands driven experience global iraq major number ongoing prominent war
That's driven by any number of factors, the most prominent of which have been the combat experience of two major campaigns - one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq - and the ongoing demands of the global war on terrorism. Stephen Cambone
campaign far fewer history less money people resources sensible wealth wealthy
I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is, after all, the wealthy people who do all the damage. The less money you earn, the fewer resources you use up. Tom Hodgkinson
campaign entails putting sipping time
When you're putting together a campaign for president, like I've been, that entails a lot of time. It's not like I've been at the beach sipping a pina colada. Ted Cruz
campaign deal education legacy life opening positive prophet
We know how to deal with these things in a positive way. We're opening an education campaign on the life and legacy of the Prophet Muhammad. Ibrahim Hooper
campaigns climate global-warming
Climate change is "some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects." Dmitry Medvedev
certainly expense goal healthy ncaa players playing round team
We want to play well, but certainly not at the expense of playing players that aren't healthy. Our goal is for our team to be healthy for the first round of the NCAA Tournament. John Brady
certainly change feeling game good group miami ranks seen teams
We have seen a lot of good linebackers with Miami and some of the teams we play, like N.C. State. He certainly ranks up there with them. I've always kind of had the feeling that when you get in the group with the top-five, it doesn't matter. You are so good at that point, you're good. He can change the game I know that.
certainly plate potential speak step
We have to get better. We're a better team. We know what our potential is. Certainly I need to do a lot more offensively. I can only speak for myself. I've got to step up to the plate and do my job. Alex Rodriguez
certainly compete larger last schools season whether
We have to find that out. We'll see. I'm not sure. The way they've been working we'll certainly be more competitive than last year. Whether we can compete with the larger schools and the co-op schools, this season will tell.
certainly internal suspicion tickets
We have no idea how those tickets got out there, but we certainly have no suspicion of any kind of internal source. John Asher
certainly collapse companies context deal decline following keeping output particular places pressure price saw whenever
Whenever you have a collapse in a particular output price -- and we certainly saw a lot of that following Asia's decline -- it places a lot of pressure on companies to deal with keeping their revenues up. In that context consolidation isn't a big surprise.
certainly played series throughout win
We have played to win throughout the series and will certainly be doing that again, Michael Vaughan
certainly count everybody game knew night player points rebounds stop
The expectations certainly were on her this year. Everybody knew that she'd be the player to stop on our team. But she went out every night and produced. I knew I could always count on 20 points and at least 10 or 12 rebounds a game from her. Matt Murphy
certainly cold comfort count fact germany people worse
The fact that other people are worse off than us is certainly cold comfort for those in Germany who have to count every cent.
country believe thinking
I think Americans want to believe in this country again. Carol Moseley Braun
country mean fighting
I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. ... To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.
country bolivia
Bolivia is not yet a country of equals. Carlos Mesa
country america people
America is such a great country, we have fat poor people. Carlos Mencia
country white apologizing
I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great
country law people
People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand. Carl Andre
country thinking talking
Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan's Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise... and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia C. S. Lewis
country religion one-day
He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.
country interest premier time
We have said for a long time that if the premier made this announcement we would stop. We are not stubborn, we have the interest of the country in mind.
dropping far learned school workshop
After going to theater school, and then subsequently dropping out, I would say that when I first went to Chicago and learned long-form improv, that was a far better acting workshop than any acting school I've been to. Thomas Middleditch
dropping projects
You can complete a project by dropping it. Arianna Huffington
dropping inspector
We're monitoring the situation. We have an inspector dropping by every day.
dropping game great last productive sean trouble
Sean had a great first game and a great last game. In between he did OK, but was not as productive as I hoped. He had some trouble dropping the ball, as did some other guys. Mark Richt
dropping ended heavy remember
She wasn't stiff. She was very heavy. Very heavy. Very, very. And I remember that she, she was (a) mess, and so heavy I think I probably ended up dropping her. Kelly Ryan
dropping expecting morning start tuesday winds
We're expecting these winds to start dropping off into Tuesday morning and through the end of this week.
dropping gave trouble
We're in trouble this year. '95-'96 is dropping off. That gave us the average.
dropping fairly followed home increase interest rapid rates stable
With the rapid increase in home prices, followed by fairly stable interest rates and income, affordability is dropping like a rock.
dropping falling guys hitting passes three
Plunkett was dropping passes in between three guys; he was hitting guys falling down. . . . We were a much better team.
generally needs time
When I'm working on a novel, I generally do write every day, but in between those marathons, I take breaks. My brain needs time to recharge. Marie Brennan
generally
If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster. Thomas Watson, Jr.
general outline reflects
The outline reflects the general will of the public.
generally seems wear
When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory! Tori Kelly
generally life tolkien
'Lord Of The Rings' fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students. John Noble
generally gets hope might music though
However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.
generally god
Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
generally generous grants perception wiped
The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.
generally
If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed. Leander Paes
particular terms thinking
When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization. Sibel Edmonds
particular privilege system weighed
There is no preordained system of ranking of particular activities. Applications are weighed in total, and we don't privilege any one organization.
particular remember several
She has been in here several times before but that particular day I don't remember her. Samuel L. Jackson
particular sundance
So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story. Jill Soloway
particular
As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there. Robert Mueller
particular point
Point me out the way / To any one particular beauteous star. John Keats
particular playwright
I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it. John Patrick Shanley
particular stage threat
must be aimed at making this happen, not making any threat which at this particular stage is not appropriate. Sergey Lavrov
particular
One particular allele of this polymorphism was being transmitted to alcoholics in these families.
rather record
I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler. Thomas Mars
rather sooner
We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.
rather work
I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself. Kate Bush
rather team
Would we rather play a team with Jagr or without Jagr? Yeah. We'd rather play without Jagr.
rather
I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down. Keeley Hawes
rather stated
Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.
rather strange
So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen. Suzanne Farrell
rather survive taken
She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.
rather
Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy. Jim Calhoun
reality people sun
There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them. Carlos Fuentes
reality ordinary shallow
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality. Carlos Castaneda
reality historical normal
The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
reality deaf-and-blind world
The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.
reality world way
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
reality world description
For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.
reality media gossip
Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies Carl Bernstein
reality definitions events
Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.
reality morality pretending
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
security
There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves. Byron Katie
security-systems people world
A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography Bruce Schneier
security-systems people links
People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.
security-measures security
Effective security measures do not come cheap. Arlen Specter
security
Security is a concern, ... It is a priority. Alberto Gonzales
security-and-freedom people liberty
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. Benjamin Franklin
security
The security of the woman is the security of society. Atifete Jahjaga
security social touching
I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.
security side span within
If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet. George Tenet
slogan state
It's like the state slogan says. Come see for yourself. Ellen Johnson
slogans
The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.' Norman Lear
slogans
Dont be someone elses slogan because you are poetry. Sandra Bullock
speeches terrified terrifying
I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world. Catherine Zeta-Jones
speeches west written
I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches - I was a speechwriter on 'The West Wing,' so I like that kind of thing. But I never really thought I'd write a book. Rob Lowe
women sophie world
Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree. Carl Friedrich Gauss
women soul secret
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it. Agnes Repplier
women secret-love doe
It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. Charlotte Bronte
women moral walks
A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing. Charles Dudley Warner
women imagination sentimental
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.
women resentment consequence
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. Charles Caleb Colton
women flower sun
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
women want ornaments
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
women intellectual female
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.