David Ignatius Quotes

• Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems.

  David Ignatius

  Analysis, Problem, Guides

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• Luck is the residue of good planning.

  David Ignatius

  Luck, Planning, Everybody Loves Raymond

  David Ignatius (2008). “Body of Lies: A Novel”, p.272, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might react to some of the recent industry-backed studies minimizing the dangers of global warming. I suspect future jurors will not be amused.

  David Ignatius

  Dream, Interesting, May

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• A change of strategy suggests there is a strategy. I don't see a strategy that deals with - that concerns with dealing wit with ISIL overall. There is some sort of strategy for dealing with it in Iraq. I'm not sure there is one in Syria. And Libya is another problem altogether.

  David Ignatius

  Iraq, Isil, Problem

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Cuando los peces gordos de Washington sueñan con transformar el mundo, son los pequeños los que vuelven a casa en bolsas para cadáveres.

  David Ignatius

  Dream, Home, Guy

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• If democracy succeeds in Egypt, other countries will follow. Should the democratic experiment in Egypt be hijacked by the military or anti-democratic Islamist groups, the revolution will fail elsewhere.

  David Ignatius

  Country, Spring, Military

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• Iran is also engaged in the fight against ISIL for reasons of its own that include a desire not to see a reasonably friendly government in Baghdad falling. But it also includes its desire not to have ISIL's ideology spread in the region where it lives

  David Ignatius

  Fall, Fighting, Government

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• Creo que los republicanos desconfían tanto de Barack Obama, que si Barack Obama dice que Putin es terrible, habrá algunos republicanos que se pongan del otro lado.

  David Ignatius

  Thinking, Republican, Mistrust

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• U.S. has been trying to encourage Iraq to pass a law that would provide money and training and weapons for a Sunni national guard that could be effective in places like Ramadi, like Mosul

  David Ignatius

  Law, Iraq, Training

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• It's very hard to understand just what our strategy is in Syria, frankly, and on Iraq that this is Iraq's war, that the role of the United States is to help Iraq, to arm, train, support, provide air support, but this has to be Iraq's war.

  David Ignatius

  War, Air, Iraq

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• Bueno, creo que Estados Unidos ha tenido cuidado de no ir demasiado lejos al atacar a los aliados de Irán, en particular al atacar a las fuerzas de Hezbolá en Siria, que han estado apoyando al régimen de Bashar al-Assad.

  David Ignatius

  Thinking, Iran, Allies

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• But the U.S. has to be careful. If our strategy depends on Sunnis doing the fighting to clear Mosul and Ramadi - and, as near as I can tell, that is the strategy - then you have to be careful that Sunnis don't perceive the U.S. to be operating arm in arm with Iran or with Iranian-backed Shiite militias that Abadi - Prime Minister Abadi is using in Iraq, so that, in effect, we're fronting for Iran.

  David Ignatius

  Fighting, Iran, Iraq

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• I believe, that there is at least de facto cooperation between United States and Iran, at least in Iraq.

  David Ignatius

  Believe, Iran, Iraq

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