Quotes for All
The drones are really interesting – how have the troops withdrawn from Afghanistan? Because we’ve upped the drone strikes and most of the country doesn’t even really know what that means or who we’re killing or… it’s such a new weapon that we don’t know what the long term impacts of that kind of military … Read more
American troops on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq. And so she [Hillary Clinton] is saying we’re not going to go back down that road, which is what the American people want. They don’t want us putting more troops. Eric Bolling
I am now concerned with women’s issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia. Emma Bonino
Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives. Eliza Griswold
In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives. People aren’t listening to poetry as if they’re taking their … Read more
The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly. Speculation is a fool’s game, but I’ve seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time. I can’t imagine how Afghanistan’s fall isn’t going to be ten times … Read more
The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly. Eliza Griswold
I can’t imagine how Afghanistan’s fall isn’t going to be ten times faster than Iraq’s. Eliza Griswold
Poetry isn’t as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that doesn’t feel relevant. Eliza Griswold
One of the things about landays is that they thrive in a modern context. Early on I went to this incredible Pashtun novelist, Mustafa Salik, who is a bestselling novelist in Afghanistan and works for the BBC in Pashto. With the question of the sanctity of the poems in mind, I asked him, \”Aren’t you … Read more