Colin Powell Quotes About Afghanistan

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  • When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.

    "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 11, 2012.
  • I'll tell you what they're all going to face, whichever one of them becomes president on January 21st of 2009. They will face a military force - a United States military force that cannot sustain - continually sustain 140,000 people deployed in Iraq and the 20-odd or 25,000 people we have deployed in Afghanistan and our other deployments.

    "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. APril 13, 2008.
  • I recommended to the president [George Bush] that our focus had to be on al-Qaida, the Taliban and Afghanistan. Those were the ones who attacked the United States of America on 9/11.

  • We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own lives in peace.

    Remarks at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 26 Jan. 2003
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Colin Powell

  • Born: April 5, 1937
  • Occupation: Former United States Secretary of State