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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 ...
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 ...
Sep 21, 2009 · Afghanistan and Pakistan now constituted a single theatre of war, Holbrooke wrote, where America would have an unavoidable interest long after the war in Iraq was history. “The conflict in...
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 · April 18, 2003 6:01 pm (EST) Richard C. Holbrooke, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in President Clinton s second term, warns that disorder, anti-Americanism, and disunity in Iraq will...
While serving as U.N. ambassador from 2000 to 2001, Richard Holbrooke helped redefine AIDS as a worldwide security issue, going so far as to arrange a January 2000 Security Council session, the ...
That is why we call it one of the great war crimes of modern Europe, and the worst since World War II. Our own awareness of this came in stages. We had been assured, publicly, by various European ...
