Former US Ambassador Ryan Crocker says the US should keep its embassy open and stay the course backing Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi; explains why he supports former Vice President Joe Biden for president; assesses the benefits and impact of Israel’s normalization agreements with the UAE and Bahrain; and discusses US policy toward Syria and Iran, as well as how diplomacy has changed over the past 20 years. 

• Why rejoining the Iran nuclear deal isn’t so easy, even if Biden wins
• Israel’s Gulf diplomacy and its discontents
• Trump, Kadhimi launch new chapter in US-Iraq relations