Ed Martin's INSIDE VENICE FLORIDA Blog          These are all the Blogs posted on Sunday, 29, 2012. Here is some experience-based wisdom for the top US. diplomat in the Middle East, not campaign blurb While Mitt Romney is making campaign promises in Israel, looking for votes in the U.S., retiring Ambassador Ryan Crocker is providing some wise advice to all of us in the U.S. He was one of the Arab world specialists in the State Department who expressed deep worry at the Bush administration’s march into Iraq. He and William J. Burns, then special assistant to the secretary of state, prepared a secret memorandum in 2002 examining the risks associated with an American invasion. Read more | 0 comments Posted By Ed Martin at 5:55 PM in Category:Inside Venice