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Kurdistan24
April 27, 2018
Alaaldin's remarks echoed those of Ryan Crocker, US ambassador to Iraq from 2007 until 2009, during “the surge,” who addressed another Washington think-tank the day before. Crocker spoke of America's short-term perspective, contrasting it with that of Hafez al-Assad, Syrian president from 1970 until his death in 2000.
Deseret News
April 26, 2018
There is no legal obligation or provision in international law that requires a country to take in refugees, even in a case of war, says Ryan Crocker, who has served as a U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria and Lebanon. But despite the lack of legal obligation, Crocker says that from 1945Ãâà...
The Ledger
April 22, 2018
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley confirmed last week there would be no drawdown of the 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, until three objectives were reached. ... The Journal's op-ed page Monday was turned over to former U.S. ambassador to Syria Ryan Crocker and Brookings Institute senior fellow MichaelÃâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
April 17, 2018
... former U.S. ambassador to Syria Ryan Crocker and I suggest how President Trump can build on the recent U.S.-U.K.-French reprisal attacks against ... The ideas build on related writings that Ambassador Crocker and I have done recently with Brookings nonresident scholar Pavel Baev of PRIO in Oslo.
CNBC
April 16, 2018
Ryan Crocker, a former U.S. ambassador to Syria, told CNBC a military response was the right signalm but now, the question for Trump is to figure out how he's going to make a difference. "This is an inflection point in which we did respond to a chemical attack. So, it's a moment to assess how we moveÃâà...
Kurdistan24
April 16, 2018
WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) - Ryan Crocker—who played a key role in America's post-9/11 “war on terror,” as ambassador to Pakistan, then Iraq, and then Afghanistan—spoke with Kurdistan 24 on Friday, hours before the US, France, and Britain attacked three Syrian chemical weapons sites. Crocker was America'sÃâà...
CNBC
April 16, 2018
US at 'inflection point' with Syria, says former ambassador. 8:17 AM ET Mon, 16 April 2018. Ryan Crocker, former U.S. ambassador to Syria, provides his thoughts on President Trump's options on Syria going forward. Watch CNBC Live TVÃâà...
The New Yorker
April 14, 2018
Ryan Crocker, a former Ambassador to Syria (as well as Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Kuwait), told me. “If the rockets hit the targets they intended, you could say the mission was accomplished in a narrow sense. But, in reality, it accomplished nothing. It might have been better if we'd not struckÃâà...
Atlantic Council (blog)
April 13, 2018
Ambassador Rend Al-Rahim is a former Iraqi ambassador to the United States, served as a senior fellow for Iraq for the US Institute for Peace, and is the co-founder and president of the Iraq Foundation. In 1991 ... Ambassador Ryan Crocker is currently a visiting lecturer and diplomat-in-residence at Princeton University.
NPR
April 11, 2018
The former U.S. Ambassador to Syria, Ryan Crocker, says that the U.S. is obligated to strike Syria again. "I think we have to respond militarily," Crocker said on Morning Edition. "To have done so in the earlier incidents and not to do so now would be a very wrong signal to send." Last year's strike targetedÃâà...
NPR
April 11, 2018
He served in Syria from 1998 to 2001, when Bashar al-Assad took power after his father's death. Good morning, Ambassador. RYAN CROCKER: Good morning, Noel. KING: Ambassador, do you think the U.S. should strike Syria in reaction to this reported chemical gas attack in Douma over the weekend?
The Almanac
April 9, 2018
Considering that he served as ambassador to six nations during nearly four decades in the U.S. Foreign Service, Ryan Crocker's advice is something you may want to consider following. “If you ever get cornered on anything having to do with the Middle East and you're losing the argument,” heÃâà...
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