April 30, 2007
U.S. Envoy to Iraq Draws Parallel to Lebanon
U.S. News Senior Writer Linda Robinson sends us this news from Baghdad from her interview today with Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. The career foreign service officer, who is fluent in Arabic, drew a connection to his stints as a diplomat in Beirut in the 1980s and 1990s, during and after the Lebanese civil war: