Advertisement |
Our aim is to ensure that the next president arrives in office with a stable foundation upon which to base policy decisions, and this is precisely what this agreement will do
Petraeus, Crocker return to the Hill Apr 09, 2008
It's time for us to step back and for the Afghans to step forward
Crocker takes over as Afghan ambassador Jul 25, 2011
Hezbollah is a part of the Lebanese political landscape and we should deal with it directly
U.S. mixed on Hezbollah stance Jun 09, 2010
For the Iraqi parliament to take a two-month vacation in summer is impossible to understand
Cheney in Baghdad, discourages vacations May 09, 2007
We're ahead of where we thought, I thought, we would be at this point in time, and then we are behind where we might have been in some other areas
Petraeus: 'Forthright assessment' ahead Jun 17, 2007
Ryan Clark Crocker (born June 19, 1949) is a Career Ambassador within the United States Foreign Service and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He currently is the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan. He was the United States Ambassador to Iraq until 2009; he previously served as the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan from 2004 to 2007, to Syria from 1998 to 2001, to Kuwait from 1994 to 1997, and to Lebanon from 1990 to 1993. In January 2010 he became Dean of Texas A&M University's George Bush School of Government and Public Service. He was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as the next U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan in April 2011 and was confirmed to the post by the United States Senate by unanimous consent on June 30, 2011.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called Crocker "one of our very best foreign service officers"; President George W. Bush called him America's Lawrence of Arabia and noted that General David Petraeus had said that "it was a great honor for me to be his military wingman."
Crocker was born in Spokane, Washington. Growing up, Crocker had family members in the U.S. Air Force and in Turkey. He lived in Morocco, Canada and Turkey. Crocker attended University College Dublin and Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where he received a B.A. in English literature in 1971 and was initiated into Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.