Robert Ford: The Senate Should Confirm Me As U.S. Ambassador To Syria

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Last year, President Obama recess appointed career diplomat Robert Ford to be U.S. ambassador to Syria after Senate Republicans refused to confirm him to the post. Republicans claimed that sending an envoy to Damascus would be rewarding bad behavior. Now that Ford has shown the merits of a high-level U.S. presence in Syria, particularly since the pro-democracy uprisings there, some who opposed Ford’s confirmation have changed their minds. Yet the Washington Post reported last week that a Senate GOP aid said some Republican senators will probably place a hold on Ford’s confirmation (his recess appointment expires at the end of the year).

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/09/22/325832/robert-ford-the-senate-should-confirm-me-as-u-s-ambassador-to-syria/