Read all about it: Ms. Anne Barnard thinks that Ryan Crocker is Syrian

" A growing number of Syrians on both sides of their country’s conflict, along with regional analysts and would-be mediators, are demanding new strategies to end the civil war...“There is a sense of surreality” to United States policy, said Ryan C. Crocker, a former ambassador to Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and now the dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. “ ‘Assad must go.’ Well, Assad isn’t going to go.” "  When asked, Ms. Barnard said that she was under the impression that the Crocker family hails from Tartus.