Kerry should be on a plane to Baghdad, ex-ambassador says

The Hill ^ | June 17, 2014 | By Rebecca Shabad

[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 can’t 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 don’t think it’s too late, but we better move now.

[Graewoulf]

You did mean a one-way trip, right?

[yldstrk]

but but but it’s scawy over there

[sr4402]

Yes, Yes, please send him, along with a lot of body bags.

[boycott]

The demos have done such a good job they cannot even go into Iraq anymore. They lost it. Shameful.

[Gaffer]

Why, that would f@ck up his botox treatment schedule.

He looks positively bizarre nowdays.

[DoodleDawg]

Kerry should be on a plane to Baghdad, ex-ambassador says

Aren't the Iraqis suffering enough as it is?

[Iron Munro]

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.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Or a patrol boat down the Euphrates with a DNC film crew aboard. Which ever.

[matthew fuller]

Tehran is more Obamanoma’s style.

[Jane Long]

Kerry looks like a muppet.

[Fresh Wind]

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.

[grania]

FWIW, that was one forceful interview Crocker gave to CBS this AM.

He made a lot of sense.

[smokingfrog]

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.

[Tx Angel]

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe another flesh wound to the buttocks.

[Fresh Wind]

He looks like Mr. Potato head without the mustache.

[Uncle Miltie]

Chickenhawk.

[skinkinthegrass]

needs to hold, "a necktie party" , for all the pirates/cutthroats of Islam.

[Mastador1]

You did mean a one-way trip, right?

Ala Ron Brown?

[Psalm 144]

Feeling a chill, Ambassador? Like a ghost at your back? I don’t blame you.