"One is the goals of 9/11 itself, of that attack was to draw the United States into Afghanistan to fight a counterinsurgency as the Soviets had done before them."

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Mark Danner

#Fighting Quotes #Goal Quotes #United States Quotes

“Small things lead to big changes.”
“There are guys who play lacrosse, and there are lacrosse players.”
“Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'”
“Either you capture the mystery of things or you reveal the mystery. Everything else is just information.”
“Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.”
“The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every person out there isn't dating a writer.”
“Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.”
“If there is God, I thought...Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh..." "Tatiasha...isn't it nice to know there is a God?”

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