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"Afghanistan is a land-locked country."
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"There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan."
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"We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny."
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"Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan."
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"But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan."
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"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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"Afghanistan is a land-locked country."
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"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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"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."
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"Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses."
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"There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan."
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"Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice."
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"The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that."
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"People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money."
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"What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something."
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"The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations."
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"You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up."
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"There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world."
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"I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country."
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"But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed."
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"The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world."
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