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“That two weeks later they were in there on roofs dancing — and inside his house — is devastating psychologically…It’s like a psychological operation on the part of the Taliban, and I think it’s a very effective one.”

- Sarah Chayes, on the Taliban takeover of Arghandab after Mullah Naqibullah’s death.

“I am not satisfied that an alliance whose members have over 2 million soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen cannot find the modest additional resources that have been committed for Afghanistan,”

            - U.S. Def. Sec. Robert Gates, in Kiev, Oct 22.

“It is very crowded up there in the north…Everyone wants to be up there handing out oranges and school books, but it is empty in the south.”

            - Major-General Frankl van Kappen (Ret.), Hague Centre for Strategic Studies.