top of page

"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Afghanistan quotes

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Afghanistan is a land-locked country."

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

"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."

"There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan."
Explore more quotes by Ted Rall


"When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression."


"Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else."


"I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great."


"Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good."


"When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information."


"There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair."
bottom of page