Khaled Hosseini Quotes

To achieve something in Afghanistan is difficult; to maintain it is much more difficult.

Although we live in a safe and stable country, Central Africa as a region has been held back by seemingly perpetual conflict - over power, resources, and who controls them.

There is little doubt that an unstable Syria will destabilize the whole Middle East.

The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.

If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.

I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

The Iraqi war has transformed the Middle East.

Syria: It’s a messy civil war and we should not be involved in it.

Egypt has a population of 90 million. If this country fails, the whole region will slide into a cycle of anarchy that will represent a grave danger to all countries in this region, including Israel, and would extend to Europe.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.

You know the Middle East is going crazy when Lebanon is the most peaceful place in the region.

The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to see a son of ISIS, or even a grandson of ISIS, developing in the years to come.

The answer as to why ISIS gained power and influence, and why stability in the Middle East has disastrously deteriorated, does not require extensive analysis.

Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance.

Around us in the Middle East there is total chaos. I'm not willing to give up on my land for this chaos.

There are many difficult challenges in Afghanistan. And we still have Taliban. We still have terrorist organizations there, and we will see violence and we will see conflict there also in the coming years,.

And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.

I think everybody realizes some things went wrong in the Middle East and that most of the terrorism is emanating from that area.

Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict," ... "we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend-a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.

Things use to be real nice, til they got out of hand. Since they moved in, they call themselves the Taliban.

Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.

Symptoms of ethical, political and economic impoverishment are all around us.

It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.