"It would be an historical error to abandon Afghanistan to opium, right after we reclaimed it from the Taliban and al-Qaida."

Hoon promised that Britain would not abandon Afghanistan.

This transition to Afghan control does not mean that the United States will abandon Afghanistan.

President Bush has made a welcome commitment not to abandon Afghanistan to its feuding warlords as the United States did a decade ago.

Abandon Iraq and Afghanistan at once leaving the people to a destroyed country with thousands of infuriated extremists waiting to react?

We are not even imagining abandoning Afghanistan.

He said Britain's commitment to Afghanistan would be long and enduring, adding: "We are very clear that the international community is not going to abandon Afghanistan."

President Karzai urged the international community not to abandon Afghanistan in the event of a U.S.-led war on Iraq.

We cannot abandon Afghanistan now and let it once again become a safe haven for terrorists.

He begged the United States to keep its promise and not abandon Afghanistan again, as it had in the 1990s.