Richard Holbrooke

US Drone Strikes and Civilian Casualties in Pakistan: "It's Not Moral"

Carne Ross | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

Read More: Civilian Casualties, David Kilcullen, Drones, Terrorism, Usaf, Pakistan, David Petraeus, Al Qaeda, Uavs, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, World News

There are no journalists in Waziristan or the other areas of western Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, so there are therefore no authoritative reports from the ground on the effects of these strikes.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Russia, South Africa, Richard Holbrooke, Nato, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Georgia, Iran, Taliban, Iraq, Israel, China, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs The Taliban's Advance Facts: This week, the Pakistani Taliban spread its reach, taking control of Buner dis...

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Picking and Choosing Enemies in Afghanistan

Hedieh Mirahmadi | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

Read More: Warlord, Afghanistan, Ansar Islam, Pashtun, Pakistan, Fata, Gulbuddin-Hekmatyar, Richard Holbrooke, Hizb-E-Islami, World News

We cannot ignore the ideological underpinnings of our enemy and empower them to fight us another day. The question is how do we tell the difference between a warlord and a global jihadist.

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Selling War: Struggling to Make the Case to Fight Terrorism, Again.

Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Obama's proposed tactics in the AfPak region have certainly been scrutinized, but truly vocal criticisms have maintained low decibel levels... until now.

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The Extreme Dangers of Obama's Pakistan Gambit

ZP Heller | Posted 05.11.2009 | World

Read More: Mike Mullen, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Pakistan, Humanitarian Crisis, Ahmed Shuja Pasha, Drones, 100 Days, Obama 100 Days, World News

How can the Pakistani government root out militants in the country's lawless tribal areas when our military's actions are contributing to more extremism and anti-American sentiment?

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Holbrooke: We Won't Press India for Peace with Pakistan

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

Read More: Admiral Mike Mullen, India, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Pakistan, Kashmir, Foreign Policy, World News

What price, exactly, would we pay for pressing India for compromise that would be more expensive than the lives of US troops and the lives of Afghan and Pakistani civilians?

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Pakistan Rejects US Proposal For Joint Operation In Tribal Areas

Dawn.com | Iftikhar A. Khan & Baqir Sajjad Syed | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

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Pakistan rejected on Tuesday a US proposal for joint operations in the tribal areas against terrorism and militancy, as differences of opinion between...

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America's 'Long War' Will Be As Pointless And Bloody As Europe's: William Pfaff

antiwar.com | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Af-Pak, Afghanistan, William Pfaff, Af-Pak, Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, Af-Pak War, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, America's Long War, World News

PARIS -- The Thirty Years' War occupies little space in the school texts of the English-speaking world, but its futility comes to mind when Richard Ho...

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What Real Diplomacy Looks Like

Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

Barack Obama showed up in Europe this week and the world did not simply swoon at his feet. Some may choose to portray that as failure, but they would be dead wrong.

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Iran Denies US Meeting At Hague Summit

AP | NASSER KARIMI and BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

Read More: Mohammad Mehdi Akhundzadeh, Richard Holbrooke, Foreign Affairs, Hague Summit, US-Iran Relations, Us Iran Meeting, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Us-Iran, Barack Obama, Advocacy, Akhoondzadeh, World News

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran dismissed American government reports that senior U.S. and Iran envoys had a cordial _ and promising _ face-to-face exchange...

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Afghanistan Summit: Iran Sending 'B Team'

Foreign Policy | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Foreign Affairs, Iran Foreign Policy B Team, Medhi Akhundzadeh, Iran, Hillary Clinton, Afganistan Meeting, Afganistan Summit, Afghanistan War, Advocacy, World News

High level delegations from nearly 70 nations are arriving here in the Hague, Netherlands for a one day conference tomorrow on Afghanistan, sponsored ...

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Summit To Launch New Commitment To Afghanistan

AP | MIKE CORDER and ARTHUR MAX | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Dutch, Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton, Netherlands, Barack Obama, The Hague, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A 72-nation conference on Afghanistan will launch a broader international commitment to the security of the region, inc...

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Holbrooke: Afghanistan Is Not Vietnam

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Holbrooke, Obama Afghanistan, Troop Levels Afghanistan, Afghanistan Vietnam David Petraeous, Richard Holbrooke, Vietnam Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Politics News

Afghanistan is not another Vietnam, Richard Holbrooke declared on Sunday, in what was, perhaps, the most forceful pushback against concern and critici...

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White House Not Ruling Out Troops In Pakistan

Wired | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, US Drone Missiles, Afghanistan, Bruce Reidel, Richard Holbrooke, Pakistan Taliban, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, Drones, Afghanistan War, Obama Pakistan, Holbrooke Afghanistan, Holbrooke Pakistan, Michele Flournoy, Advocacy, World News

President Obama has just laid out his new war strategy. And he's made it clear that the fight is both in Afghanistan and Pakistan. So I asked Dennis M...

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Holbrooke Draws Comparisons To Rwanda In Advocating Obama's AfPak Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

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The rollout of Barack Obama's Afghanistan-Pakistan policy has largely focused on a variety of military and diplomatic objectives, from the training of...

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Karzai "Extremely Gratified" By Obama's Afghan Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai was "extremely gratified" with Barack Obama's speech and approach to the war in Afghanistan, the president's chief diplo...

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AF"Lack" -- NATO's AWOL Allies in Afghanistan

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Al Qaeda, Europe, Germany, President Obama, Pakistan, General Petreaus, Nicholas Sarkozy, Bin Laden, Muslim World, France, Nato, Richard Holbrooke, Angela Merkel, Taliban, Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton, World News

President Obama's remarks highlight how quickly and seamlessly his national security team was able to construct a commendably hard and soft power approach to the AFPAK crisis.

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Afghanistan War: The West's 'Fatal Mistakes'

The Independent | Patrick Cockburn | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Bulbuddin Hekmatyar, America, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Afghan War, Foreign Affairs, Peter Galbraith, Abdul Salam Zaeef, Nato, General Petraeus, Afghan Taliban, Advocacy, Kandahar-Afghanistan, Kabul-Afghanistan, World News

After seven long years in which it seemed a sideshow to the bigger conflict in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan has reached a critical point. The US must ...

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Balancing the Equation: AfPak Security at the Expense of Governmental Stability

Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Two tactics that Administration officials are entertaining in the region strongly beg the question as to whether Obama is placing a premium on security, at the expense of government stability.

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Obama's Rugged Week

William Bradley | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics

Is Geithner's plan another bailout to Wall Street? Or is it needed pragmatism to work with a deeply troubled, farcically entitled though still necessary private financial sector?

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Obama Envoy Richard Holbrooke Served On AIG's Board

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 04.19.2009 | Home

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WASHINGTON — Obama administration special envoy Richard Holbooke was on the American International Group Inc. board of directors in early 2008 w...

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Pakistan Marches, Crackdown Threaten Regional Stability

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan Uprising, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan March, Pakistan State of Emergency, Pakistan Democracy, Chief Justice Chaudhry, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, Pakistan Opposition, Pakistan Crisis, Nawaz Sharif, Anne Patterson, Shahbaz Sharif, Advocacy, World News

The political and popular strife in Pakistan continues to escalate as police and government security officials attempt to stymie the rising tide of an...

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Don't Let Afghanistan Become Obama's Vietnam

Sahil Kapur | Posted 03.21.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Iraq War, Karzai Obama, Fareed Zakaria, Afghanistan Surge, Iraq Surge, Barack Obama, US Troops in Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, White House, Russ Feingold, Foreign Affairs, George W. Bush, Economic Crisis, Congress, Joe Biden, Mainstream Media, Nato, Stephen Tanner, Richard Holbrooke, United States Foreign Policy, Washington Post, Newsweek, Media Failure, Obama's Vietnam, Obama 17000 Troops Afghanistan, World News

Although the president's goals for the region are commendable, he must carefully examine the larger strategy or Afghanistan might devolve into a hauntingly familiar quagmire.

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Afghanistan: Accusing Karzai

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 03.24.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Holbrooke Afghanistan, General Eikenberry, Richard Holbrooke, Civil-Military Relations, Military, Afghanistan, US Foreign Policy, War on Terror, State Department, World News

Sure some of this mayhem is Karzai's fault and he may not be the best for Afghanistan in the future, but we, the international community, must leave that decision to the Afghans.

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Holbrooke Holds Talks In India, Discusses Relations With Pakistan

Al Jezeera | Posted 03.19.2009 | World

Read More: Islamabad, Richard Holbrooke Envoy, India, South Asia, Afghanistan, New Delhi, Us Envoy Middle East, Richard Holbrooke, Pakistan, Mumbai Attacks, Mumbai Terrorist Attacks, World News

The new US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan has met Indian officials and discussed Afghanistan and simmering tensions between New Delhi and I...

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