Bao Dai

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.