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Ted Rall

"Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else."

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"Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else."

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Amber Hurdle

"But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan."

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Amber Hurdle

"Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses."

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Amber Hurdle

"There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan."

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"But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan."

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Amber Hurdle

"We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare."

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Amber Hurdle

"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."

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Amber Hurdle

"Afghanistan is a land-locked country."

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Amber Hurdle

"Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan."

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Amber Hurdle

"Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan."

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Amber Hurdle

"There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan."

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