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Articles of the author David Ignatius
Egypt Looks for a Path Toward Democracy
Bassem Youssef, Egypt's popular television comedian, expresses the irreverent confidence this country will need to regain stability. On air, he mocks the autocratic tendencies of both the Muslim Brotherhood leaders and the army generals who toppled (...)

21 - 11 - 2013
How America Can Best Assist Egypt Now
The White House rationalized last week's military coup in Egypt as providing the opportunity for a "do-over," and that's a comforting idea in more ways than one. But political life doesn't come with an eraser to neatly remove mistakes and start over (...)

09 - 07 - 2013
Toward a US diplomatic firewall strategy in Iraq
The Bush administration is groping toward a diplomatic firewall strategy that might help keep the inferno in Iraq from spreading in the Middle East. This approach has two basic components: pushing harder for negotiations to establish a Palestinian (...)

24 - 07 - 2007
A sustainable US policy can avert an Iraqi bloodbath
The last time I remember Ambassador Ryan Crocker warning about a possible bloodbath, it was in September 1982 as the Sabra-Shatila massacre was taking place in Beirut. So when Crocker tells The New York Times that a rapid US withdrawal from Iraq (...)

17 - 07 - 2007
As privacy fritters away, normal life becomes impossible
Is life "on the record ? Seriously, should someone going out on a date clarify whether the evening's events are on "background ? In conversations with our neighbors, should we specify that we are operating under "Chatham House rules, in which our (...)

14 - 07 - 2007
Accountability is what the spies need
Here's an example of the kind of accountability the CIA needs in order to get out of the doldrums and become a truly effective intelligence service: It is 1985, and the CIA team assigned to stop the TWA 847 hijacking has returned home after an (...)

11 - 07 - 2007
The US must get serious, and ready, for an attack
How would America react to a future terrorist attack? Would the country come together to combat its adversaries, or would it pull further apart? Perhaps we will never have to confront the question, you say. Perhaps our good luck will hold, or our (...)

07 - 07 - 2007
Let Iraq burn, but don't leave the fire scene
"Sometimes you just have to let a fire burn. George Shultz, a former secretary of state who was trained as an industrial economist, is said to have made that remark about labor negotiations that have reached an impasse. It applies with ever-greater (...)

04 - 07 - 2007
Three old men still reflect on the game of nations
When foreign-policy gurus Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft all start saying the same thing, it's time to pay attention. That happened this month in a joint appearance broadcast on "The Charlie Rose Show, and their comments (...)

25 - 06 - 2007
Bush in trouble, or West Bank on the Potomac
Sailors have a colorful phrase to describe a boat that is so close to the wind that it has stopped dead in the water - unable to fill its sails and make any headway. They say the boat is "in irons. The Bush presidency is perilously close to being in (...)

25 - 06 - 2007
America looks for ways to fight its worst enemy: IEDs
The photographs gathered by The Washington Post each month in a gallery called "Faces of the Fallen are haunting. The soldiers are so young, enlisted men and women mostly, usually dressed in the uniforms they wore in Iraq and Afghanistan. What's (...)

12 - 06 - 2007
What Arizona can say about conducting the Iraq war
Listening to the parade of presidential candidates repeating safe bromides about how to fix what's broken in America, I wish I could charter a bus and bring them all to Phoenix to meet a man who is actually fixing things: Michael Crow, the (...)

07 - 06 - 2007
A country hobbled by a zero-defect political culture
Technology is about taking risks. Government bureaucracy is about avoiding mistakes. The mismatch between the two is creating a funding squeeze that could undermine America's dominance of the new technologies that will be crucial to the nation's (...)

05 - 06 - 2007
Look, yet another 'new' American policy in Iraq
President George W. Bush and his senior military and foreign-policy advisers are beginning to discuss a "post-surge strategy for Iraq which they hope could gain bipartisan political support. The new policy would focus on training and advising Iraqi (...)

27 - 05 - 2007
An army against the clock
America set a long clock ticking when it decided to spend $300 million to rebuild the sprawling military base here in Taji, Iraq, as a logistical center for the new Iraqi army. This was to be the soldier s version of nation-building - maintenance (...)

21 - 05 - 2007
In Somalia, shock and awe, followed by stalemate
"Get it done quickly and get out. That, says a senior US diplomat in Addis Ababa, was the goal of the little-noticed war that Ethiopia has been fighting, with American support, against Islamic extremists in Somalia. But this in-and-out strategy (...)

14 - 05 - 2007
An exhausted US looks for multipolar exit strategy
After the Iraq debacle, nearly everyone seems to agree that "unilateralism in foreign policy is a bad thing. Leading the march of born-again multilateralists is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has been meeting with representatives of Syria, (...)

07 - 05 - 2007
Time for someone else to repair Wolfowitz's damage
Reading some of the shrill comments posted online by World Bank staffers expressing (anonymously) their loathing for Paul Wolfowitz, you can understand why the bank president feels he has been the victim of a "smear campaign. But in taking the role (...)

02 - 05 - 2007
The US and Iran are near a dialogue
Sometimes big developments are hidden in plain sight, and that appears to be the case with Iran and the United States. The two countries have moved over the past year from mutual isolation to the edge of serious diplomatic discussions. The Bush (...)

29 - 04 - 2007
The US breaks out of its Middle Eastern isolation
For the past few years, the United States has been in a self-imposed diplomatic isolation in the Middle East. But two paths out of that wilderness are becoming visible, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is moving cautiously down each one. The (...)

20 - 04 - 2007
Trouble is brewing for the US in Iraqi Kurdistan
While the Bush administration struggles to stabilize Baghdad, a major new threat is emerging in the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq. If it isn't defused, this crisis could further erode US goals in Iraq - drawing foreign military intervention, (...)

18 - 04 - 2007
Iraq distracts Bush from issues needing attention
Iraq distracts Bush from issues needing attention David Ignatius As political power ebbs away from the Bush presidency, a number of changes are becoming visible around the world-most of them unwelcome. Simply put, the White House is losing its (...)

17 - 04 - 2007
Has a Soviet spy been brought in from the dark?
Roll back the tape to January 1964: America is still reeling from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and investigators don't know what to make of the fact that the apparent assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, lived for three years in the (...)

12 - 04 - 2007
Congress and the White House are on a collision course
Lee Hamilton, the former Indiana congressman who is a one-man bipartisan commission, recently suggested a simple test for evaluating political leaders. The best choice, he told a Washington gathering, is the person who can build consensus around (...)

05 - 04 - 2007
Are Iran's Revolutionary Guards getting jittery?
We are in a season of skullduggery in the Middle East, with a strange series of disappearances that all involve the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The murky saga is a reminder that the real power in Iran may lie with this secretive (...)

31 - 03 - 2007
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