Ryan Crocker

Ryan Crocker: Cases Of Afghans Killing NATO Military Counterparts Can Be 'Personal'

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 05.25.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Earlier this week, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker confirmed that he would be stepping down from his post at some po...

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US Ambassador To Leave Afghanistan This Summer

AP | Posted 05.22.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Veteran U.S. diplomat Ryan Crocker will be leaving his post as ambassador to Afghanistan this summer, an embassy spokesman ...

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US Ambassador To Afghanistan Tries To Keep Upbeat Outlook After Assassination Of Peace Official

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 05.13.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan tried to preserve an upbeat perspective on peace talks in an interview on Sunday, a day that ...

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US And Afghanistan Finalize Agreement

AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 04.23.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. and Afghanistan reached a deal Sunday on a long-delayed strategic partnership agreement that ensures Americans wil...

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Secret U.S. Cable Warned About Pakistani Havens

The Washington Post | Posted 02.24.2012

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The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan sent a top-secret cable to Washington last month warning that the persistence of enemy havens in Pakistan was placi...

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Security Jitters in Afghanistan

Jayshree Bajoria | Posted 11.14.2011

Afghan and NATO forces ended a 24-hour attack by militants on the U.S. embassy and NATO headquarters in what has been a secure district in Kabul, raising new concerns about Afghanistan's security.

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U.S. Ambassador Blames Haqqani Network For Kabul Attack

Posted 11.14.2011

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan on Wednesday blamed the Pakistani-based Haqqani network for the coordinated attack again...

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PHOTOS: Close Calls For U.S. Ambassador To Afghanistan

AP | Posted 11.13.2011

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By The Associated Press Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, has been caught up in a number of attacks over the course of his diplom...

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Lowering America's War Ceiling?

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 10.02.2011

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It's as if Washington's leading political players, aided and abetted by the media's love of the horserace, had eaten LSD-laced brownies, then gone on stage before an audience of millions to enact a psychotic spectacle of American decline.

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Ambassador To Afghanistan Tries To Quell Fears About U.S. Withdrawal

AP | By DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 09.24.2011

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- America's new top diplomat in Afghanistan sought Monday to allay the fears of the Afghan people who worry the U.S. is aband...

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Ambassador Nominee: Goal In Afghanistan Is Not 'Hopeless'

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 08.08.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's choice for U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan insisted on Wednesday that the United States must continue its m...

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Obama's Biggest Problems Still Lie Abroad

William Bradley | Posted 06.29.2011

President Barack Obama has no shortage of nasty critics at home, including the present gong show known as the Republican presidential field. But despi...

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Sources Reveal Obama's Top Choice For Key Afghanistan Post

AP | Posted 06.26.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is likely to name seasoned diplomat Ryan Crocker as the next U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, several sources told...

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Conservatives Back Obama On Afghanistan

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Prominent conservative foreign policy thinkers and activists who backed the Iraq war are circulating a letter to President Obama supporting his engage...

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History Has Not Yet Judged Bush

James Denselow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Certainly Bush's rewriting of his Iraq legacy will be helped by his decision to reverse his earlier policies, abandoning the idealism of the top-down reinvention of Iraq, for reality-based pragmatism.

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Success in Iraq? Think Again.

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

See, in a world where things aren't connected to other things -- where you get to handle one thing at a time, in a vacuum, at the pace you choose -- maybe you could consider the war in Iraq a success.

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US Ambassadors Getting Slotted By Obama Team

The Cable | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the recent Gen. Anthony Zinni case demonstrates, behind the scenes and mostly under the radar, the Obama administration is busy slotting U.S. ambas...

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Obama Picks Non-Arabic Speaker As Iraq Ambassador

AP/Washington Post | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Christopher Hill, the Bush administration's lead negotiator with North Korea, is the leading candidate to become the next U.S. Amba...

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Out of Iraq in 16 Months: Yes We Can -- Yes We Must

Tom Andrews | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wavering on his promise to withdraw from Iraq in 16 months could damage the credibility of Obama's claim that his election represented fundamental change.

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US Envoy: A Hasty Iraq Withdrawal Could Bolster Al Qaeda

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — A hasty departure of U.S. troops from Iraq would carry severe risks, including bolstering al-Qaida and threatening Iraqi progress towa...

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US Inaugurates New $700 Million Embassy In Baghdad

AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — The United States inaugurated its largest embassy ever on Monday, a fortress-like compound in the heart of the Green Zone _ and the mo...

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Iraq Security Pact Moves To Parliament

AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — The U.S.-Iraqi security pact now before parliament calls for U.S. forces to leave Iraq's cities by June 30 in recognition of an improv...

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US Ambassador: Americans Need To Have "A Sense Of Strategic Patience" About Iraq

AP | JOHN DANISZEWSKI | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker on Sunday accused Iran of trying to interfere with a new security pact between Iraq and the United States...

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Joe Biden On Iraq: Staying Is "Killing Us"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senator Joe Biden continued to press his argument against the administration's strategy on Iraq across the TV dial this morning. On the Today Show, h...

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En Route To Germany, Obama Praises Petraeus And Crocker

Politico | Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

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In advance of his Thursday address in Berlin, Obama chats with reporters on the plane, Carrie Budoff Brown reports: Asked if he expected a million sc...

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