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Quotes About Taliban

When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the time of Islam's founding more than 1,300 years earlier. Afghan women's lives offered the most visible sign of the imagined past to which Afghanistan's present was to be returned.
~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.
~ Malala Yousafzai
What was merely an uncomfortable experience was deemed torture by many in the public square. Spend some time in the company of ISIS or the Taliban if you want a lesson in real torture.
~ Unknown
Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them.
~ Barack Obama
Trump revised history to claim he had a plan in place for withdrawal and that if only Joe Biden had followed it, everything would have been fine. "The Taliban was totally under control" while he was president, Trump insisted. "There was no problem. We could have left. We could have taken a year, two years, or two months. They would have never been anywhere near us. They were not fucking around with me.
~ Maggie Haberman
There are reports on the news tonight that members of the Taliban feel persecuted and fear their own safety. So now they know what it is like to feel like a woman in their country.
~ Jay Leno
I'm not an alcoholic, I am freedom fighter against the teetotal taliban.
~ Al Murray
What would bug a guy from the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.
~ Marsha Blackburn
What is happening now is not a surprise. It was predicted. If anything, it is happening faster than predicted, said Mick Mulroy, the Pentagon's former top Middle East policy official and an ABC News analyst. We are not seeing the worst of it. The Taliban is not only taking territory, they are killing people with the weapons we provided to Afghan security forces, said Mulroy, a former CIA officer and Marine infantryman who served in Afghanistan.
~ Unknown
Libertins et talibans c'est blanc bonnet et bonnet blanc à cet égard : les premiers veulent l'érotisme sans la procréation, et les seconds la procréation sans l'érotisme ; dans les deux cas, ce qui coince c'est la mère qui s'envoie en l'air !
~ Unknown
I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.
~ Newt Gingrich