Skip to comments.
Kerry should be on a plane to Baghdad, ex-ambassador says
The Hill ^
| June 17, 2014
| By Rebecca Shabad
Posted on 06/17/2014 6:57:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Secretary of State John Kerry should be on a plane right now for Baghdad, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker said Tuesday.
Crocker served as ambassador to Iraq under President George W. Bush from 2007 until 2009, and ambassador to Afghanistan under President Obama until July 2012. The Obama administration should have had more high-level diplomatic engagement with Iraq, he argued Tuesday, and emphasized the U.S. must now respond with urgency.
We are hard-wired into their political system. We helped create it. We cant walk away from it, Crocker said.
I would have preferred since 2011 to see us more deeply and intensively engaged at the highest levels of government. I dont think its too late, but we better move now.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoforeignpolicy; iraq; kerry; leadingfrombehind; lurch; postwariraq; soskerry
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-29 next last
To: Oldeconomybuyer
You did mean a one-way trip, right?
2
posted on
06/17/2014 6:58:26 AM PDT
by
Graewoulf
(Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
but but but it’s scawy over there
3
posted on
06/17/2014 6:59:37 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yes, Yes, please send him, along with a lot of body bags.
4
posted on
06/17/2014 6:59:43 AM PDT
by
sr4402
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The demos have done such a good job they cannot even go into Iraq anymore. They lost it. Shameful.
5
posted on
06/17/2014 7:00:09 AM PDT
by
boycott
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Why, that would f@ck up his botox treatment schedule.
He looks positively bizarre nowdays.
6
posted on
06/17/2014 7:03:01 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Kerry should be on a plane to Baghdad, ex-ambassador says Aren't the Iraqis suffering enough as it is?
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Fall Of Baghdad would be Deja-vu all over again for Kerry.
When he gets home he can throw his make-believe State Dept. credentials over the White House fence and complain about ugly Americans who act like Jen-Jiss Khan.
8
posted on
06/17/2014 7:05:05 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(The Obamas' Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Or a patrol boat down the Euphrates with a DNC film crew aboard. Which ever.
9
posted on
06/17/2014 7:05:14 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Tehran is more Obamanoma’s style.
10
posted on
06/17/2014 7:05:19 AM PDT
by
matthew fuller
(gopetition.com/petitions/request-for-immediate-texas-border-control/sign.html#se)
To: Gaffer
Kerry looks like a muppet.
11
posted on
06/17/2014 7:05:55 AM PDT
by
Jane Long
("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Maybe he can sail his 75-foot yacht Scaramouche over into the Persian Gulf and invite all the warring parties to join him for cocktails.
12
posted on
06/17/2014 7:07:16 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
FWIW, that was one forceful interview Crocker gave to CBS this AM.
He made a lot of sense.
13
posted on
06/17/2014 7:07:51 AM PDT
by
grania
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Isn’t Kerry at some meeting to save the oceans from climate change? I guess people getting wasted by murdering muslims is not a priority for him.
14
posted on
06/17/2014 7:09:46 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: Iron Munro
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe another flesh wound to the buttocks.
15
posted on
06/17/2014 7:09:52 AM PDT
by
Tx Angel
To: Jane Long
He looks like Mr. Potato head without the mustache.
16
posted on
06/17/2014 7:12:33 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
17
posted on
06/17/2014 7:16:34 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Radicalized via the Internet)
To: Fresh Wind; All
needs to hold, "a necktie party" , for all the pirates/cutthroats of Islam.
18
posted on
06/17/2014 7:17:01 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
To: Graewoulf
You did mean a one-way trip, right? Ala Ron Brown?
19
posted on
06/17/2014 7:21:21 AM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Feeling a chill, Ambassador? Like a ghost at your back? I don’t blame you.
20
posted on
06/17/2014 7:24:12 AM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(Happier than a Svoboda skinhead with a free armband.)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-29 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson