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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.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Above Action Agency Collection Covert Good Intelligence Much Organization Running Spy Very

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U.S. power flows from our unmatched military might, yes. But in a deeper way, it's a product of the dominance of the U.S. economy.

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Topics: Deeper Dominance Economy Flows Might Military Our Power Product U.s. Economy Way Yes

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Paradoxically, the United States' determination to protect its troops can be self-defeating. Allies and adversaries see U.S. forces living in secure compounds, eating fancy chow and minimizing their exposure to potential terrorist assaults.

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Topics: Adversaries Allies Compounds Determination Eating Exposure Fancy Forces Living Potential Protect Secure See Self-Defeating States Terrorist Troops United United States

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If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers have 'skin in the game,' and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Bankers Behavior Better Financial Game Incentives Like Long-Term Make Managers More Net Net Worth Performance Skin Then Those Tied Want Where World Worth You

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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

Topics: Adopt Aggressive Been Before Deployment Forces Guess He Inside Military More Obama Options Resisting Safe Some Special Special Forces Syria Will Zone

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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

Topics: Aircraft Artificial Assert Carrier China Creating Defying Easier Fleet Islands Maritime Pacific Power Sea South Than

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'Cyber-security' is one of those hot topics that has launched a thousand seminars and strategy papers without producing much in the way of policy.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Hot Much Papers Policy Producing Seminars Strategy Those Thousand Topics Way Without

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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

Topics: Across America Bay Become Capture Great Great Gatsby Green History Images Light Particular Periods Sometimes Symbol Yearning 1920S

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Frightened people want to protect themselves, sometimes without thinking about others. Often, they get angry and want to find someone to blame for catastrophe. Inevitably, they spread information without checking if it's true.

~David Ignatius

Topics: About Angry Blame Catastrophe Checking Find Frightened Get Inevitably Information Often Others People Protect Someone Sometimes Spread Themselves Thinking True Want Without

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Bob Gates has unusual standing in the debate about the Obama administration's foreign policy: He was defense secretary for both a hawkish President George W. Bush and a wary President Obama. He understood Bush's desire to project power and Obama's skepticism.

~David Ignatius

Topics: About Administration Bob Both Bush Debate Defense Desire Foreign Foreign Policy Gates George George W George W. Bush He Obama Policy Power President President George W. Bush President Obama Project Secretary Skepticism Standing Understood Unusual Wary

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: May 26th, 1950

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