Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.

I am certain that the people of Afghanistan are very happy tonight and see in this constitution a new source of hope. ... The time for jihad is finished.

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

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.

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.