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When you say things like, We have to wipe out the Taliban, what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of peo

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"When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway"

- Arundhati Roy

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This quote is written / told by Arundhati Roy somewhere between November 24, 1961 and today. He/she was a famous Novelist from India. The author also have 11 other quotes.

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