"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 the strategy - then you have to be careful that Sunnis don't perceive the U.S. to be operating arm in arm with Iran or with Iranian-backed Shiite militias that Abadi - Prime Minister Abadi is using in Iraq, so that, in effect, we're fronting for Iran."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

David Ignatius

#Fighting Quotes #Iran Quotes #Iraq Quotes

“At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something”
“I want to do everything in the world that can be done.”

Source : Fanny Kemble (1835). “Journal”, p.82
“When you're trying to coordinate four separate shows together, it's pretty Herculean.”
“The goal of the Redemption is the redemption of truth.”
“We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves and one another. From this there is no escape. We may collaborate either well or poorly or we may refuse to collaborate, but even to refuse to collaborate is to exert an influence and to affect the quality of the product. This is only a way of saying that by ourselves we have no meaning and no dignity; by ourselves we are outside the human definition, outside our identity.”
“In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you dance tango fast, you have to think slow.”

Source : "Robert Duvall: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2010.
“We run to undo the damage we've done to body and spirit. We run to find some part of ourselves yet undiscovered.”

Source : John Bingham (2002). “No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running”, p.207, Rodale

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