I think the current situation in Iraq and the continued violence in Iraq and the substantial abandonment of Afghanistan -- where we only control the capital in Kabul and the rest of the country is being taken over by warlords and the Taliban is coming back -- I think those kinds of things are inevitably going to be placed on the agenda for almost all the candidates,
Quotes about warlords (10 Quotes)
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.
When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced the job to Afghan warlords and bin Laden escaped.
The Afghan people need a government that is functional and accountable. The warlords offer neither.
Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, who seized three-pronged lances when the warlords raised whips in their black hands. We were brave and sacrifice was easy and we asked the sun, the moon, to alter the sky. Now I see a thousand waves of beans and rice and am happy. In the evening haze heroes are coming home. June 25, 1959
Thieves and warlords are controlling affairs in the country, where international monitors can't observe more than 10 constituencies even if they wanted to.
With keeping the tragedy of 911 in mind, it's the nexus between narcotic sales and terrorism -- that's the focus that the international community needs to get at rather than just get after the warlords or get after poppy.
The elections were a masquerade more than anything else, as various regions of the country are under the control of highwaymen and warlords, and international observers ... cannot cover more than one tenth of the (electoral) districts.
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Don't forget that this is not just a collection of warlords, drug lords and smugglers. We have good people as well.