Veteran U.S. Diplomat to Lead Iran Talks

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Source: Associated Press

The new U.S. ambassador to Iraq has made a career of taking on difficult tasks.

Ryan Crocker helped set up Iraq's provisional government following Saddam Hussein's fall. In Afghanistan, he reopened the U.S. Embassy in Kabul after the Taliban's collapse in 2001 and led sensitive negotiations with Iran.

Crocker - one of only a handful of U.S. diplomats who have held meetings with Iranians in the past quarter century - is set to tackle yet another challenge Monday when he opens a groundbreaking round of high-stakes encounters with an envoy from Tehran.

This time, it's about the enormous complexities of trying to restore security to Iraq.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6662880,00.html

[Edgeoforever]

1. After such a successful job in Iraq, who can doubt his qualifications?

I for one am relieved...:sarcasm:

[Straight Shooter]

2. As the saying goes, never two without three.

Failure number 3, coming right up.

[seemslikeadream]

3. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself,

http://www.chinapage.com/sunzi-e.html

18. Hence the saying: If you know the enemy
and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a
hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy,
for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will
succumb in every battle.

[ananda]

4. qualifications?

As typical for Bushinc, he is the least qualified..
and this of course is shown by his track record.

Afghanistan is in much worse shape, and Iraq is
completely fubar.

[madrchsod]

6. he`s not a bushinc ,

he`s been a career middle east diplomat since 1972

[madrchsod]

5. he has spent his entire career in the middle east

starting in 1972 he has been "employed" by every president on one level or another in the middle east. if there is anyone who understands the iranian/persian society it is him. remember it`s not up to him to broker a peace it`s up to his boss.