<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - David Ignatius</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><description>David Ignatius</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Bolton's Biggest Problem]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7896-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7896-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  "My conscience got me,"  Ohio Republican Sen. George Voinovich said this week in explaining why he wanted to delay a vote on the Bush administration's nominee for U.N. ambassador, John Bolton. That's a sentence you don't hear often in Washington, and it suggests that there's more going on with the  Bolton nomination than a mere partisan squabble.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Nationalism]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2951-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2951-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  A funny thing is happening on the way to a globalized economy: Even as national boundaries are getting fuzzier because of free trade and instant flows of capital, the world is becoming more nationalistic.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can the Spy Agencies Dig Out?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55028-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55028-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  "You have a blank slate" to fix the CIA and other spy agencies, Sen. Pat Roberts told the new director of national intelligence, John Negroponte, this week. And that's true  --  to a frightening extent. The future of U.S. intelligence is up for grabs, almost literally.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will Democrats Seize the Opening?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48137-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48137-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The Republican Party, seemingly intent on squandering its 2004 election gains, is handing the Democrats a golden opportunity to restore their credentials as a governing party. To seize the moment, the Democrats must do what the Republicans have been avoiding  --  which is to get serious about the nation's economic problems.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind Bush's Slump]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35738-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35738-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  It was less than three months ago that President Bush launched his second term with a soaring inaugural address and bold promises about how he would spend his new political capital. Today much of that momentum seems to have been lost, and analysts are puzzling over why.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace in the Pipeline?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28416-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28416-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  When a new Iraqi government finally takes office, it will have in its "in-box" an economic proposal that touches on some of the country's most sensitive questions: How to reduce violence in the Sunni Triangle, how to manage the country's increasingly tense relationship with neighboring Jordan, and how to expand its oil production and exports.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fooling Ourselves]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17353-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17353-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  To the literature on deception in war we must now add a new chapter  --  on self-deception. For that is the ultimate explanation for how the American military went to war in Iraq in March 2003 equipped with gas masks and chemical-biological suits to protect itself against weapons of mass destruction that turned out not to exist.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumsfeld And the Generals]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11309-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11309-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Sometime this summer President Bush will pick a new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to lead a U.S. military that has been battered by the war in Iraq. When you ask military officers who should get the job, the first thing many say is that the military needs someone who can stand up to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter in Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64570-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64570-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   I spent Easter Sunday two years ago in a Baghdad that had just been liberated by U.S. and coalition troops. And, yes, the right word is "liberated." If you doubt that was the feeling of most Iraqis at the time, then you weren't there.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Real Missile Defense Gap]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58463-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58463-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Here's a macabre defense quiz for the post-Sept. 11 world: Which kind of attack on the United States is more likely over the next 20 years  --  a ballistic missile launched from another continent, or a low-flying cruise missile or rocket fired by terrorists from a ship off the U.S. coast? For me, the answer unfortunately is a no-brainer. The more plausible threat is the short-range cruise missile or rocket attack, not the distant ICBM. The ICBM is the old Cold War paradigm of what could get Americans killed; the short-range threat is an all-too-believable image of what terrorists could do today, using missiles bought on the black market and homemade chemical or biological warheads.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Syrians Slip Away]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45507-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45507-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The most frightening spot in Beirut over the past 20 years was Syrian intelligence headquarters at the Beau Rivage hotel. This was a place most Lebanese mentioned only in whispers. When the local newspapers had to discuss something controversial involving the Syrians, they would often refer to them with circumlocution, "a regional power," say, for fear that the men from the Beau Rivage would come and get them. Or worse, come and shoot them.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flirting With Deficit Disasters]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38565-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38565-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   While President Bush has been on the road trying to woo public support for his plan to privatize Social Security, two of the nation's economic gurus have been warning that the country is flirting with financial disaster. It's time for the president to stop focusing on a risky and unpopular scheme for addressing the problems of 2040 and to pay more attention to crises that could unfold during the next few years.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lebanon's Next Steps]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25613-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25613-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   "We don't want to be another Iraq," says one of the leaders of the Lebanese movement for democracy. That's not meant as a shot at the Bush administration but as a statement of political strategy. He knows the Beirut  Spring will wither and die if the United States becomes the driving force for change, rather than the Lebanese people.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Rendition' Realities]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18709-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18709-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Torture is immoral and illegal, and the refusal to allow cruel interrogation techniques is one measure of a civilized society. But this ironclad moral argument doesn't necessarily apply to the practice known as "extraordinary rendition."]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Czar's Uncertain Clout]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5694-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5694-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  When John D. Negroponte agreed to become director of national intelligence (DNI), the joke was that the only worse job in government was the post he already had,  U.S. ambassador to Iraq.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Managing A Mideast Revolution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64395-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64395-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   There's an obscure branch of mathematics known as "catastrophe theory," which looks at how a small perturbation in a previously stable system can suddenly produce dramatic change. A classic example of the theory is the way a bridge, after bearing immense weight for many years, can suddenly collapse because of a new stress.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Our Guys Stayed and Fought']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51781-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51781-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   BAGHDAD -- Let's call it the "Adnan and Jim Strategy." These two soldiers exemplify the new U.S. plan to stabilize Iraq by training Iraqi security forces and embedding U.S. combat advisers with them. If their success can be multiplied many times over, then the Iraqi government should, over time, be able to contain the insurgency. But that's a big "if."]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beirut's Berlin Wall]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45575-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45575-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   BEIRUT -- "Enough!" That's one of the simple slogans you see scrawled on the walls around Rafiq Hariri's grave site here. And it sums up the movement for political change that has suddenly coalesced in Lebanon and is slowly gathering force elsewhere in the Arab world.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allawi's Vision]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33565-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33565-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   BAGHDAD -- Ayad Allawi says he dreamed for years of two things -- toppling Saddam Hussein and establishing a democracy in Iraq. As an opposition leader and then interim prime minister, he helped achieve both goals. But as he prepares to leave office, Allawi worries that his country remains on the edge of a precipice.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning a Political Corner]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30958-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30958-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/ignatiusdavid</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:26:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   BAGHDAD -- After a heroic election day comes the practical business of forming a stable government. And in that sense, the new Iraq is proving to be no different from any other democracy.]]></description><author> David Ignatius</author></item></channel></rss>
