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May 7, 2019 · Later, in 2002, Holbrooke’s reasons for supporting the impending war in Iraq had to do with fear — not just of Saddam Hussein but also of the possibility that “a soft Democrat was ...
Jun 14, 2019 · The Iraq war showed its fallibility but not its worthlessness. Holbrooke, as Packer writes, “believed that power brought responsibilities, and if we failed to face them the world’s suffering ...
Holbrooke's big critique of the war is that "It was a mistake to seek the second -- and unnecessary -- Security Council resolution. I wrote an op-ed about this six weeks before the disaster...
Apr 18, 2003 · Interview by Bernard Gwertzman, Interviewer. Richard C. Holbrooke, Interviewee. April 18, 2003 6:01 pm (EST) Richard C. Holbrooke, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in President Clinton s...
N ear the start of his account of ending the Bosnian conflict, Richard Holbrooke, arguably the most famous US diplomat since the cold war, describes a freak tragedy that almost destroyed the peace ...
Sep 21, 2009 · What’s more, in the view of several White House aides, Holbrooke epitomized something that Obama had run against: a Democratic foreign-policy establishment that had supported the invasion of...
Feb 27, 2003 · Former ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke suggests that the Clinton administration's handling of the conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo should be a model for President Bush as he seeks to bring Iraq...
