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David Ignatius
American
Journalist
Born:
May 26
,
1950
Intelligence
People
Sometimes
Will
World
You
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Saudi Arabia is a frightened monarchy. It's beset by Sunni extremists from the Islamic State and Shiite extremists backed by Iran.
David Ignatius
State
Backed
Extremists
Arabia
Sunni
Islamic
Iran
Frightened
Monarchy
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
Chinese experts noted that the U.S. economy has rebounded from the 2008 crash more strongly than some analysts here had expected, while China's own growth is slowing after several decades of rocket-ship acceleration.
David Ignatius
Own
Analyst
Several
Some
Slowing
Strongly
More
Had
Economy
Acceleration
Than
Decades
Expected
After
Crash
Experts
While
China
Chinese
Noted
Growth
Here
2011 was a year in which events rarely turned out as predicted, and when much of the world seemed shrouded in turmoil and uncertainty. It was difficult for government analysts back in Washington to know just where they were on the map, let alone where they were heading.
David Ignatius
Alone
Government
World
Events
Year
Difficult
Analyst
Back
Out
Rarely
Seemed
Uncertainty
Heading
Know
Were
Just
Where
Predicted
Which
Turmoil
Turned
Much
Map
Washington
President Obama was right to ban torture, but the public must understand that this decision carries a potential cost in lost information. That's what makes it a moral choice.
David Ignatius
Decision
Lost
President
President Obama
Carries
Moral
Must
Obama
Torture
Cost
Potential
Makes
Understand
Ban
Information
Public
Choice
Right
The best restraint is old-fashioned market discipline, in which financial traders know that they, personally, will lose a ton of money if they take risky bets that don't pan out.
David Ignatius
Best
Money
Financial
Discipline
Will
Lose
Market
Out
Restraint
Bets
Risky
Take
Know
Which
Personally
Old-Fashioned
Ton
Pan
A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation.
David Ignatius
Change
Political
Drawn
About
Civilized
Dialogue
Reformation
America
Disruptive
If you want to hear arguments against deploying a big U.S. ground force in Syria, just ask a general.
David Ignatius
You
Argument
Big
Syria
General
Force
Hear
Just
Want
Deploying
Against
Ask
Ground
My guess is that before Obama departs, he will adopt some of the more aggressive military options he has been resisting, such as 'safe zones' inside Syria and more aggressive deployment of U.S. special forces.
David Ignatius
Will
Before
Aggressive
Military
Guess
Syria
Has-Been
Obama
Inside
Some
Adopt
More
He
Safe
Forces
Been
Options
Deployment
Special
Special Forces
Zone
Resisting
U.S. adversaries exploit power gaps. It's easier for Russia to invade Ukraine with irregular forces out of uniform, the so-called 'little green men,' than to send a conventional army that would challenge NATO.
David Ignatius
Army
Challenge
Men
Power
NATO
Ukraine
Easier
Out
Would
Invade
Russia
Adversaries
Forces
Than
Green
Send
Irregular
So-Called
Conventional
Little
Uniform
Exploit
Gaps
It's easier for China to assert its maritime power by creating artificial islands in the South China Sea than by defying the U.S. Pacific Fleet with an aircraft carrier.
David Ignatius
Power
Maritime
Aircraft
Easier
Carrier
Defying
Islands
South
Than
Artificial
Pacific
China
Fleet
Creating
Sea
Assert
The nation's chronic weakness is its political system, which is nearing dysfunction. If the U.S. can elect better political leadership, it should be able to manage problems better than most competitors.
David Ignatius
Leadership
Better
Political
Problems
Nation
Chronic
System
Weakness
Able
Most
Than
Manage
Political System
Which
Dysfunction
Elect
Should
Competitors
What frustrates U.S. officials is that China sometimes seems more comfortable accommodating a strong United States, as it did in past decades, than partnering with an America that's less dominant.
David Ignatius
Strong
Sometimes
Past
States
Seems
More
Comfortable
Dominant
Than
Decades
America
Did
Officials
Frustrate
China
Less
United
United States
I'm as prone to 'declinism' as the next over-mortgaged middle-aged guy.
David Ignatius
Prone
Guy
Middle-Aged
Next
It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus, you see students drawn from all over the world - an astonishing number these days with roots in Asia - whose chief assets are brainpower and hard work.
David Ignatius
Work
Hard Work
Time
You
World
Treat
Spend
Astonishing
Drawn
Harvard
See
Attack
Students
Over
Days
Chief
Campus
Any
Graduates
Asia
Roots
Hard
Sarah
Sarah Palin
Whose
Fashionable
Assets
Palin
Number
Set
It's a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era.
David Ignatius
Dilemma
Share
Genuine
How
How Much
Era
Governments
Deciding
Information
Much
CIA officers aren't idiots. They knew they were heading into deep water - legally and morally - when they signed up for the interrogation program. That's part of the agency's ethos - doing the hard jobs that other departments prudently avoid.
David Ignatius
CIA
Water
Other
Signed
Jobs
Morally
Part
Knew
Heading
Idiots
Doing
Were
Up
Officers
Legally
Departments
Agency
Ethos
Hard
Avoid
Deep
Interrogation
Program
Real security will come when it's a moneymaker for private companies who want to satisfy public demand for an Internet that isn't crawling with bugs.
David Ignatius
Internet
Will
Security
Demand
Come
Bugs
Real
Private
Real Security
Want
Crawling
Public
Who
Companies
Satisfy
Big mistakes were made in Benghazi, and people should be held accountable. But the brave officers who staff American posts in crisis zones know how dangerous the work is.
David Ignatius
Work
People
Dangerous
Made
Mistakes
Big
Benghazi
Crisis
Posts
Know
How
Were
Accountable
Officers
American
Brave
Staff
Held
Should
Who
Zone
Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation.
David Ignatius
About
Ideas
Execution
Policy
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Formulation
Much
Movies have a way of distilling moments in our culture, and 'Gravity' may be the defining film for the lost-in-space year of 2013: Nothing works.
David Ignatius
Culture
Year
Nothing
Our
Way
Defining
May
Movies
Moments
Works
Film
Gravity
Things felt pretty crazy on earth in 1969, but the cosmos was friendly. Astronauts had round-trip tickets; they got home.
David Ignatius
Home
Crazy
Earth
Astronauts
Pretty
Cosmos
Had
Tickets
Felt
Got
Friendly
Things
Images sometimes capture particular periods in history. The unreachable green light, beckoning from across the bay in 'The Great Gatsby,' has become a symbol of the yearning of America in the 1920s.
David Ignatius
Great
History
Sometimes
Light
Become
Great Gatsby
Bay
Unreachable
Particular
Periods
Yearning
Green
America
Green Light
Across
Capture
Images
Symbol
The revival of the U.S. financial system after the crash of 2008 is arguably the Obama administration's biggest domestic policy success.
David Ignatius
Success
Financial
System
Financial System
Obama
Administration
Arguably
Policy
Domestic
Domestic Policy
Revival
After
Crash
Biggest
When historians look at the Obama presidency, they're likely to credit him especially for doing the politically unpopular things that were needed in 2009 to salvage the financial wreckage.
David Ignatius
Financial
Presidency
Obama
Unpopular
Wreckage
Look
Likely
Him
Doing
Were
Historians
Salvage
Politically
Credit
Things
Needed
World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.
David Ignatius
War
World
String
Cases
Provides
Celebrated
Deception
Manipulation
World War
World War II
Prominent scientists have become increasingly convinced that the connection between carbon emissions and rising temperatures is real, but skeptics have whole truckloads of studies to demonstrate the opposite.
David Ignatius
Become
Increasingly
Prominent
Temperatures
Rising
Emissions
Studies
Between
Real
Demonstrate
Scientists
Opposite
Convinced
Connection
Whole
Carbon
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