Crocker: "The Israeli invasion of 1982 had a fundamental and ongoing impact on the entire region, and on us..."

Ignatius with Crocker, in the WaPo, here

"...The lessons of Lebanon stayed with Crocker, and they framed his view of Iraq. "Major traumas have very far-reaching consequences," he says. "The Israeli invasion of 1982 had a fundamental and ongoing impact on the entire region, and on us. It brought into being the Syria-Iran alliance, it brought into being Hezbollah -- and all the second- and third-order consequences, some of which we're arguably confronting today in Gaza."