Richard Holbrooke on Huffington Post

Peter Van Buren: Wishful Thinking and Poor Planning: State Department Wastes $80 Million in Afghanistan

2012-05-07T12:05:50Z

Why does the State Department consistently make poor decisions? Everyone makes mistakes, but what we have here is a long, long litany of obvious bad decisions, so obviously bad one cannot help but wonder how smart people made them.

Read more: Iraq War, Hillary Clinton, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, State Department, Mazar-E-Sharif, Washington Post, Politics News

Stephen Schlesinger: Holbrooke's Saga

2012-01-12T16:16:23Z

A remarkable book has just been published about one of America's most brilliant diplomats, Richard Holbrooke, entitled The Unquiet American.

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Robert Naiman: On Complaints Over Iran Nuclear Weapon Claims, WaPo Ombud Rules for the Plaintiffs

2011-12-12T12:48:19Z

Patrick Pexton, responding to complaints over a headline treating the unproven allegation as a known fact, came down firmly on the side of the complainants. Moreover, Post editors corrected the offending headline, conceding it had been an error to fail to acknowledge debate.

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James Denselow: A Knight's Tale

2011-07-11T13:23:26Z

Joining the ever expanding series of memoirs from former officials involved in the Afghan and Iraqi wars, Sherard Cowper-Coles has written an immensely readable and insightful account of what appears to be a structurally flawed expedition.

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HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now : Economy vs. Obama? GOP Goldwaterized? Afghan Porridge Right?

2011-06-26T20:47:39Z

Hilary Rosen and Kellyanne Conway disagree about how heavy the economic albatross will be politically and whether the GOP fringe will taint its nominee. Did President 'Aiken' just declare victory and come home?

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Ben Plumley: HIV/AIDS Is Still Everyone's Business

2011-06-09T19:38:09Z

Global AIDS remains the same unprecedented threat to global health and social stability that we understood it to be a decade ago. The full impact of this virus will take us decades to understand fully.

Read more: HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Unaids, Tuberculosis, Pangaea Global Aids Foundation, Global-Aids-Foundation, Richard Holbrooke, United Nations, Impact News

Jamie Stiehm: The Vietnam War Ghost: Does It Still Live in Obama's White House?

2011-05-20T16:47:13Z

Haunting Legacy is a clear-eyed look at the Vietnam War's fateful consequences up until the present in Afghanistan. It could not be a more timely and thoughtful contribution to the literature.

Read more: Afghanistan, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, Vietnam, George W. Bush, David Petraeus, Osama Bin Laden, Richard Holbrooke, Marvin Kalb, Haunting Legacy, Vietnam War, Deborah Kalb, Books News

Steve Clemons: Afghanistan War: What Richard Holbrooke Really Thought

2011-05-17T04:39:58Z

The trends in America's engagement in Afghanistan bothered Richard Holbrooke greatly, and it's important for the Obama administration to take serious account of Holbrooke's concerns as the next steps on Afghanistan are weighed.

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Sources Reveal Obama's Top Choice For Key Afghanistan Post

2011-04-26T20:47:51Z

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is likely to name seasoned diplomat Ryan Crocker as the next U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, several sources told...

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Former Secretary Of State Warren Christopher Passes Away

2011-03-19T04:50:22Z

March 19, 2011 7:43:00 AM

WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who helped bring peace to Bosnia ...

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Nancy Birdsall: New U.S. Afghanistan-Pakistan Rep Is Head Firefighter And Head Gardener

2011-02-23T15:43:24Z

Marc Grossman has courageously agreed to take up what has been called "the worst job in the world" -- special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Read more: Development, Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, Marc Grossman, John Kerry, Richard Lugar, World News

Clinton Taps New Envoy To Afghanistan, Pakistan

2011-02-15T09:33:34Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has chosen retired diplomat Marc Grossman to replace the late Richard Holbrooke as the Un...

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Steve Clemons: Broadmoor Reflections: What Gay Acceptance Feels Like Over Time

2011-01-21T00:37:44Z

A recent visit to Broadmoor, Colorado made me feel that great progress has been made in this country and history is tilting in good directions for the most part when it comes to tolerance and acceptance.

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Priya Bery: The Ambassador's Toast: Remembering Richard Holbrooke

2011-01-14T12:06:53Z

Holbrooke's style of diplomacy, rooted in taking risks and championing humanity, is something we must pass on for generations and cultivate in future in leaders.

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Cynthia P. Schneider: Richard Holbrooke and Rembrandt

2011-01-13T01:39:11Z

"Is 'The Polish Rider' by Rembrandt?" The first words Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, then U.S. envoy to the UN, spoke to me had nothing to do with the business at hand.

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John Brown: Richard Holbrooke's Public Diplomacy: The Case of the US Cultural Center in Belgrade

2010-12-22T08:56:58Z

Richard Holbrooke has died. At a time when many are grieving the loss of a temperamental but dedicated diplomat, one episode of his work in the Balkans -- that explosive and often forgotten corner of Europe -- is worth bringing to light.

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Robert Scheer: Speaking Ill of 'the Best and the Brightest'

2010-12-22T05:07:51Z

One of "the best and the brightest" died last week, and in Richard Holbrooke we had a perfect example of the dark mischief to which David Halberstam referred when he authored that ironic label.

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Trevor Neilson: A Personal Reflection on the Loss of America's Greatest Diplomat

2010-12-20T10:45:46Z

Ambassador Richard Holbrooke was kind and caring. Yes, we have lost America's finest diplomat. But we have also lost one of our finest men.

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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough: Richard Holbrooke Told Me Afghanistan Was A Losing Proposition

2010-12-20T11:39:17Z

WASHINGTON -- Before his death, Richard Holbrooke admitted that Afghanistan is a war that cannot be won, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough revealed Monday.

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Rory Stewart: Midnight Moments: Exposing the Truth and Taking Full Responsibility for Afghanistan

2010-12-20T10:21:59Z

Last January, Richard Holbrooke called my cell phone at midnight. He wanted to quiz me on Afghanistan. The energy of this man, thirty years older than me, at one in the morning shook me.

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After Bucking Holbrooke's Advice On Afghanistan, Obama Invokes His Name

2010-12-16T15:11:47Z

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama asserted on Thursday that the White House's questionable assessment of progress in Afghanistan "reflect[s] the de...

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Douglas A. Wissing: The Passing of Farmer Holbrooke

2010-12-15T22:24:09Z

The death of Richard C. Holbrooke, the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, has left a giant vacuum in Afghanistan policy circles -- particularly in regards to the agricultural development policy that Holbrooke championed as an essential counterinsurgency tool.

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Matt Kane: What Does Richard Holbrooke's Death Mean for Afghanistan?

2010-12-15T11:58:10Z

Though a devoted statesman and a very intelligent man, Holbrooke seemed to be either outright ignored by top administration officials both at home and abroad or simply appeased by domestic officials while other plans were undertaken anyway.

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Rennie Silva: Richard Holbrooke and His Times

2010-12-16T02:04:23Z

Richard Holbrooke's life ended as he faced the greatest challenge of his career: to successfully negotiate peace in Afghanistan.

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Richard Holbrooke, Pakistan's Hero

2010-12-16T09:43:35Z

No American has tried as hard to ease the fears, apprehensions, doubts, conspiracy theories and ill-informed views of Pakistanis toward the U.S. as ha...

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