Richard Holbrooke

Clinton Defines Turf, Flexes Muscle: East Asia Trip My Choice

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

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Among the more gossipy subplots of Hillary Clinton's early weeks as Secretary of State has been the way in which the foreign policy spheres of influen...

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Afghan President Tells Fareed Zakaria: Western Press Filled With "Misinformation" About Him

CNN | Posted 03.16.2009 | World

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This Sunday, CNN's Fareed Zakaria will interview Afghan President Hamid Karzai in an exclusive and lengthy interview discussing the allegations of cor...

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Afghanistan: Russia to the Rescue

William Bradley | Posted 03.16.2009 | World

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Russia can certainly help the US greatly in Afghanistan. And the price -- ending the NATO encroachment strategy -- may be an inevitable one anyway, and thus perhaps easily paid.

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Afghan President Admits Tensions With US

Al Jazeera English | Posted 03.16.2009 | World

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Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has admitted that there is tension between his government and the new US administration....

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US Envoy In Afghanistan To Map Out Surge

The Independent | Kim Sengupta | Posted 03.16.2009 | World

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Richard Holbrooke arrived in Kabul yesterday with the evidence of the lethal resurgence of the Taliban only too plain to see - the debris from a serie...

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Holbrooke Afghanistan Trip: Security Troops Throng Afghan Capital Before Envoy Visit

AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 03.15.2009 | World

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KABUL — The new U.S. regional envoy landed in Afghanistan on Thursday to help chart President Barack Obama's strategy for peace in this volatile...

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Taliban Attack Afghan Government Buildings, Killing At Least 20, Before Holbrooke Visit

AP | FISNIK ABRASHI and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 03.14.2009 | World

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KABUL — Taliban militants killed 20 people in a coordinated attack on three government buildings in Kabul Wednesday, launching the assault after...

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Dan Rather On Afghanistan: Success Depends On "Soft Power" (VIDEO)

WorldFocus | Posted 03.13.2009 | World

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President Barack Obama is dealing with the expanding war in Afghanistan, violence in neighboring Pakistan and militants on both sides of the Afghan-...

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Pakistan Hails Holbrooke's Visit A "New Beginning" In Pak-US Ties

AP | BY CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 03.13.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan told an envoy dispatched by President Barack Obama that it wants to be included in talks on any changes in U.S. efforts to ...

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NATO Mired In Stalemate With Afghanistan's Taliban

Times Online | Michael Evans, Defence Editor, Tom Coghlan in Kabul and James Bone in New York | Posted 03.13.2009 | World

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Britain and her Nato allies in Afghanistan are stuck in a stalemate with the Taleban, David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, admitted yesterday. Hi...

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Pakistan Urges Holbrooke To Take Regional Approach

Daily Times | Sajjad Malik | Posted 03.12.2009 | World

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Islamabad will urge US special envoy Richard Holbrooke to adopt a regional approach to solve the prevailing issues of terrorism and extremism, diploma...

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Holbrooke Visits Wary U.S. Ally In Pakistan

New York Times | Jane Perlez | Posted 03.12.2009 | World

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When the envoy Richard C. Holbrooke arrives here Monday looking for ways to stop a runaway Islamist insurgency that is destabilizing Pakistan, he will...

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Richard Holbrooke: Afghanistan Will Be "Much Tougher Than Iraq"

Washingtonpost.com | Craig Whitlock | Posted 03.11.2009 | World

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MUNICH, Feb. 8 -- President Obama's national security team gave a dire assessment Sunday of the war in Afghanistan, with one member calling it a chall...

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Obama Backpedals On Afghan Troop Surge

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 03.10.2009 | World

We may soon witness a reverse triple back flip with pike by the Obama administration over his campaign promise of increasing troop numbers in Afghanistan.

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Obama Administration Omits Kashmir From Envoy's Mandate

Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

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Like the conflicts in Afghanistan and Palestine, the Kashmir conflict is one that is talked about in hundreds of thousands of mosques -- not jut in the region, but throughout the world.

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Holbrooke: Insensitive Choice for a Sensitive Region

Stephen Zunes | Posted 03.02.2009 | World

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Obama's choice for special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, is a man with perhaps the most sordid history of any of the largely disappointing set of foreign policy and national security appointments.

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A Silk Road to Obama's Success

Sunil Adam | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

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The Obama administration seems oblivious of the only option it has to solve the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan without broadening the crisis -- involving China in the conflict resolution strategy.

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Solving the Global Food Crisis: The Case for a "Poverty Czar"

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

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Addressing global poverty at its roots means recognizing that the most significant factors driving up food costs are the diversion of crops to biofuels and the growing demand for meat.

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Obama's Counterproductive South Asian Strategy

Lionel Beehner | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

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It's one thing for Obama not to hand the Taliban our playbook in northwest Pakistan. It's another thing to go silent when reporters ask legitimate questions about policies and predator strikes that kill innocents.

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Obama To Be Tougher On Afghan President: Aides

Nytimes.com | HELENE COOPER and THOM SHANKER | Posted 02.28.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON -- President Obama intends to adopt a tougher line toward Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, as part of a new American approach to Afghani...

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Pakistan President: Approves Of Holbrooke, Wants Financial Partnership To Stabilize Pakistan

Washingtonpost.com | Asif Ali Zardari | Posted 02.28.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan looks forward to a new beginning in its bilateral relationship with the United States. First, we congratulate Barack Obama and t...

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Holbrooke's Challenge in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Ken Bacon | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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Richard Holbrooke will be working with U.S. and allied forces to bring peace and prosperity to Afghanistan and Pakistan. The problem is that the U.S. programs in these countries often conflict.

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Richard Holbrooke Is The Wrong Man For The Job: Scott Ritter

CommonDreams.org | Posted 02.24.2009 | World

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It was early in October 2001, and I had been invited to New York City on behalf of The History Channel for a show in which I was to discuss the situat...

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India Aggressively Lobbied Against Richard Holbrooke

Foreign Policy | Laura Rozen | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

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When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - flanked by President Obama - introduced Richard Holbrooke as the formidable new U.S. envoy to South Asia at ...

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Obama Ready To Cut Karzai Adrift

The Independent | Jerome Starkey and Kim Sengupta in Kabul | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

Barack Obama's arrival in the White House and the wind of change sweeping through Washington could lead to the ousting from power of Hamid Karzai, Pre...

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