Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems.

- 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 …

- David Ignatius

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 hav…

- David Ignatius

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.

- 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 i…

- David Ignatius

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

- 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 …

- David Ignatius

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 fa…

- David Ignatius

Luck is the residue of good planning.

- David Ignatius