Confirmed: U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford (The Envoy)

Amb. Robert Ford in Syria (Facebook)
The Senate on Monday confirmed Robert Ford as U.S. ambassador to Syria.
He was confirmed by unanimous consent.
Ford was among a group of ambassadors whom President Obama appointed to their posts last December via recess appointments, since their nominations ran into GOP resistance in the Senate.
But conservatives who had previously objected to putting an envoy in Damascus have since revised their views, based in part on Ford's extensive outreach efforts to Syrian pro-democracy demonstrators.
Last week, on one such visit to a well known Syrian opposition politician, Ford was confronted by a violent pro-regime mob.
challah oxford comma oxford comma elisabetta canalis cedric benson lord howe island lord howe island