How to pronounce “afghans” in English

Afghans must perceive that Americans are defeating the insurgency.

Afghans must perceive their irrecoverable loss should they choose insurgency over democracy.

or Afghans that you're connecting with here, and find ways to either become a little bit more aware of what's happening in Kabul now.

The Afghans were overjoyed at what was happening.

Iran has 800,000 Afghans who have been there for 30 years.

We're holding the Afghans to this incredibly high standard of transparency.

and the Afghans could no longer cross.

I think most Afghans that I met, including in government, have a much more nuanced view of the Taliban

And the Afghans just looked at this stuff like, "we're not going to do it this way.

employed 70 Afghans it has a uh an intake valve and you you bring in water it needs like about a 20ft drop and it

from 9% to 50% of Afghans living in poverty went from 80% to 97%.

So if we want to help Afghans, if we want to deport them, if we want to do anything in the world,

We didn't care about the Afghans.

We actually didn't care about the Afghans, at least not judging by the money allocated by this nation afterwards.

and it's our responsibility as regular Afghans to rise up against them.

A few of my readers were Afghans, folks I knew in Kabul who were checking it.

driving along this Valley 12 Americans 24 Afghans trying to get back home for the night and in

extremely costly for Americans and it was extremely costly for Afghans as you do in your book enough already.

Germany, but the Afghans are expendable.

I mean, knowing Afghans, knowing these two, and knowing so many others who have helped and supported

And you know, Afghans in America don't wear turbans.

And we're riding to keep up with the Afghans, and it's a macho thing.

Pakistanis, and Afghans who live there, home of the best chutney kabab outside of Kabul.

And we didn't really acknowledge the extent of that discontent among Afghans.

Have there been any opinion polls from Afghanistan to see what the Afghans think about the US involvement and if they still want us there?

I mean, you talk to Afghans and yeah, they want the American military back to protect them, to keep things the way they were, not

But I think broadly speaking, Afghans aren't happy with the US military presence.

been going on with Iraqis, with Afghans.

But at the end is very similar than being embed with the Afghans in this example.

which is separated by a line-- that the British imposed-- the Durand line-- which the Afghans have never accepted and the Pashtun have never accepted.

I was also looking at the the numbers before the war and after the war percent of Afghans facing food insecurity went

But, they're now forced to weigh the urgency of assistance to Afghans against

we've frankly spent too much time focusing on trying to change the Taliban rather than trying to support Afghans to

to the rebuilding of Afghanistan, and with the goal of restoring human and musical rights to Afghans.

I mean in Afghanistan in the '80s, we armed the Afghans to the teeth so they could fight the Russians-- which is arguably the right thing to do--

I still remember the morning I came up onto camp, and there were just so many Afghans outside the info tent.

I mean, there were some other very prominent charismatic Afghans around 2001.

And secondly, does Afghanistan as a political unit matter to the Afghans?

There's a lot of nationalism in Afghanistan, and people are proud to be Afghans and proud of their history and their heritage

I think most Afghans are happy about that, that we will continue to be involved in the future of their country.

And they said, oh, our friends at the Idomeni border have just told us that the Afghans can no longer cross.

At least, they aren't happy with them in their homes on these operations, doing night raids, and arresting people, and holding Afghans in US jails.

And as an adviser to Afghan troops, so in many respects, my war buddies or a few Americans, but many of them were Afghans.

We'd get on the trucks, load them up, 12 vehicles, about 120, 130 Afghans.

Have you shared it with any Afghans?

Eikenberry wrote that President Hamid Karzai’s not an adequate strategic partner, that sending additional forces will delay the day when Afghans will take over

But tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, Afghans, Yemenis, Somalis have died, not always at our hands, often in internecine warfare, but we can hardly