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Senate Confirms Ambassador Robert Ford To Syria Post | Ambassador Robert Ford, whom President Obama installed in Damascus last year as a recess appointment, received Senate confirmation by unanimous consent to his post in Syria last night. Ford faced Republican blocks on his confirmation, but neoconservatives and Ford’s former opponents in the Senate urged the upper chamber to confirm him as he became a symbol of U.S. “solidarity” with opposition protesters and began agitating the Assad regime.
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