It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir
Khaled HosseiniStichwörter: the-kite-runner drama afghanistan
In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.
George ClooneyStichwörter: politics war death 9-11 iraq israel un darfur afghanistan global palestine united-nations
Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck.
Khaled HosseiniStichwörter: life afghanistan customs
The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have focused less on finding the enemy, and more on finding our friends.
Craig M. MullaneyStichwörter: war afghanistan
Afghanistan—where empires go to die.
Mike MalloyStichwörter: imperialism militarism afghanistan
Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.
AberjhaniStichwörter: inspiration philosophy peace war spirituality iraq terrorism afghanistan ukraine war-in-iraq courage-to-love world-suicide-prevention-day human-rights-day peacism police-reform police-shootings september-9-11 stop-killing-each-other syrian-war teaching-diversity waging-peace
War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.
Sebastian JungerStichwörter: life war army military soldier afghanistan marine-corps combat
Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: women religion feminism heroes role-models islam iraq theocracy afghanistan iran ayaan-hirsi-ali azar-nafisi heroines taliban-treatment-of-women women-and-religion women-in-afghanistan women-in-iran women-in-iraq women-in-islam women-s-rights-in-iran women-s-rights-movement-in-iran
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.
Maureen DowdStichwörter: afghanistan war-in-afghanistan-2001
[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: capitalism united-states afghanistan iran taliban globalisation north-korea islamic-republic american-imperialism anti-americanism
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