David Ignatius Quotes
When the big guys in Washington dream of transforming the world, it’s the little guys who come home in body bags.
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.
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
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.
I believe, that there is at least de facto cooperation between United States and Iran, at least in Iraq.
Misdirection. False signals. Spreading confusion. This is the Tao of deception.
The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good spy agency, but it's good at running covert action.
Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.
Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They're fun to watch, but they don't have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do.
Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.
We have a complicated intelligence relationship with France. We have a complicated intelligence relationship with other - with other allies.
Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy.
This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.