Former U.S. Diplomat Urges Israel Towards a Ceasefire with Hamas and Hezbollah
Christiane Amanpour speaks with former U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon, Ryan Crocker, on Israel’s strategy in Gaza and Lebanon.
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Ryan Crocker
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Ryan Crocker is a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was previously a diplomat in residence at Princeton University. He was a career Foreign Service Officer who served six times as an American ambassador: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait and Lebanon. Three of these appointments were under Republican administrations, and three were under Democratic administrations. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, in 2009. Other recent awards include the inaugural Bancroft Award, presented by the Naval Academy in 2016. Also in 2016, he was named an honorary fellow of the Literary and Historical Society at University College, Dublin, where he was presented the annual James Joyce Award. He has been named as the 2020 recipient of West Point’s Thayer Award. He is an Honorary Marine.
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‘They’ve Forgotten Their Own Recent History’: Why Israel Won’t Move Toward Peace
The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar could be an opening that might lead to the freeing of Israeli hostages and a cease-fire, but history suggests Israel and its enemies won’t take it.
Israel-Hamas War Latest
A discussion on negotiation deals to release Israeli hostages in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
· January 29, 2024
The Risk That the Israel-Hamas Conflict Becomes a Wider War
The broader regional risks of the Israel-Hamas war.
‘It Didn’t Need to End This Way’: Fmr. Us Ambassador on Afghanistan’s Collapse, One Year On
All the more heartbreaking because it didn't have to go this way. Now Afghanistan is completely off the tracks with the Afghan people, once again, paying the bill for decisions that are made elsewhere.
· August 15, 2022
A National of Iraq
Language is absolutely indispensable and critical element in successful diplomacy and ultimately in our own national security, and we are not great at it.
· May 16, 2022
Afghanistan Is About to Collapse. Here’s What the US Must Do About It
The United States has a reputational interest and a moral obligation in vigorously joining efforts to help the Afghan people preserve at least some of the social and economic gains made over the last twenty years.
· December 17, 2021
Afghanistan 2001-2021: U.S. Policy Lessons Learned
There is a single overarching problem that is at the root of what the world has seen of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan and elsewhere. It is the failure on the part of the United States to demonstrate strategic patience .
On the Afghanistan Withdrawal
Strategically and for a long, short, and medium-term interest, the decision to completely withdraw from Afghanistan, was a bad one, and the execution of it has been pretty bad as well.
· August 25, 2021