You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.
I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.
The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.
Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.
I'm not good at explaining why I walked across Afghanistan.
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.
There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.
Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.
As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.