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1. "To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
2. "There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
3. "Afghanistan is a land-locked country." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
4. "At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
5. "Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
6. "Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
7. "There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
8. "When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
9. "Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
10. "It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
11. "But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
12. "But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
13. "But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
14. "However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
15. "If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
16. "So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
17. "Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
18. "In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
19. "A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
20. "Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
21. "People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money." ~ Lakhdar Brahimi

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