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David Ignatius is an accomplished American journalist known for his in-depth reporting on international politics and diplomacy. Born on May 26, 1950, he served as a senior journalist for The Washington Post, where he gained recognition for his coverage of significant events in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. Ignatius is praised for his keen insights and profound understanding of complex international relations.

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“The child was born in the Arab world, and in that sense, Roger and Alice had gone into the land itself, been penetrated by it, bled into its veins (p. 349).”

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Book:Body of Lies

Source: Body of Lies

“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”

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Author:David Ignatius

“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.”

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Author:David Ignatius

“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.”

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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”

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“Well, I think the U.S. has been careful not to go too far in attacking Iran's allies, in particular in attacking Hezbollah forces in Syria, which have been propping up the regime of Bashar al-Assad.”

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Author:David Ignatius

“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.”

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

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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.”

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Author:David Ignatius

“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.”

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Author:David Ignatius

“Luck is the residue of good planning.”

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Book:Body of Lies: A Novel

Source: Body of Lies: A Novel

“I think Republicans so mistrust Barack Obama, that if Barack Obama says Putin is terrible, they will be some Republicans who just take the other side.”

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Author:David Ignatius

“Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems.”

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Author:David Ignatius

“When the big guys in Washington dream of transforming the world, it’s the little guys who come home in body bags.”

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Author:David Ignatius

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Born: May 26, 1950
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