Former U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker to speak

Consequences and causes of foreign policy in the Middle East to be topic of Spokane forum

Former U.S. ambassador to Iran and Afghanistan Ryan Crocker will be the speaker at a Sept. 19 public forum presented by People For Effective Government (PEG). The topic of Crocker's talk at the Gonzaga University Jepsen Center's Wolff Auditorium will be "Middle East Meltdown: Causes and Consequences." The forum begins at 7 p.m.

According to a news release on Crocker's talk, the Middle East has long been a turbulent region, punctuated with revolutions, counter-coups and border wars. In the interval since the Arab Spring, however, the world has seen something new: not just the collapse of govern...

 

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