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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 ...
Although the United Nations did not fully support U.S. military actions in Iraq, Holbrooke said, the United States should continue to work with the organization in future endeavors. The United Nations, he said, is an “indispensable part of foreign policy” and a vital organization that helps to keep the United States in check.
Apr 18, 2003 · 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 require a very long American comm…
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 ...
Feb 27, 2003 · Richard C. Holbrooke was right last summer when he argued that the United States should seek a U.N. resolution on Iraq. And he was right last Sunday ["It Didn't Have to Be This Way," op-ed, Feb ...
Jul 10, 2008 · 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 in The ...
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.
