Charlie Rose with Richard Holbrooke, Richard Solomon, James Lilley & Winston Lord; Adam Moss (April 3, 2001)
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Richard Holbrooke has been called many things in his long career: diplomat, peacemaker, bruiser and, in the court of President Hamid Karzai, “the Devil”.
NoahBrier.com (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
I really like George Packer (I've linked to his writing quite a few times in the past). Anyway, his latest piece (at least I think it's his latest), is a nearly 15,000 word profile of Richard Holbrooke, special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan . It's quite an impressive piece, painting not only a clear picture of a complicated figure in international relations, but also providing...
War News Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Advisor Jim Jones now taking the lead and putting on the final touches. Today, Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke cancelled a planned speaking event scheduled for Wednesday, November 18, at the Women's Foreign Policy Group, "due to unforeseen changes in the speaker's schedule," a group representative said. And the rest of the President's team is back in town on Thursday, November...
WHAT YOU MUST READ (Free subscription) | yesterday
AFGHANISTAN Saudi prince Turki al-Faisal makes a pretty good case about how to solve the Afghan situation. I was both very surprised and very happy to read that Richard Holbrooke had visited Afghanistan as a Peace Corps volunteer before the country descended into chaos, decades ago. One can hope that gives him a broader and deeper perspective on the country's future. Also, interesting...
MSNBC.com: Newsweek National News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stanley Karnow is the author of , generally regarded as the standard popular account of the Vietnam War. This past summer, Karnow, 84, picked up the phone to hear the voice of an old friend, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. The two men had first met when Holbrooke was a young Foreign Service officer in Vietnam in the mid-1960s and Karnow was a reporter covering the war. Holbrooke,...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Furious over the criticism that the Kerry Lugar bill has received in different Pakistani political quarters, US Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, has said that
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... surfaced this last week in the Washington Post. Hoh was flown to an interview in Washington with Richard Holbrooke, the administration's "point man" for Afghanistan and Pakistan, after his superiors grasped the political implications...
Personal Democracy Forum (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , in conjunction with the office of special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke , is about five days into an experiment mobile phones to build civil society in Pakistan. Working with three local cell phone companies and a U.S.-based mobile vendor, the State Department has set up in Pakistan what it is calling Humari Awaz . That's...
Fabius Maximus (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... an effective “democratic” partner in Afghanistan, the foreigners stepped in: Senator John Kerry, Richard Holbrooke, and other envoys appeared in Kabul or made telephone calls to sweet somethings in ears and . The result was a of voting slated for November 7th and likely only to the initial injury. No matter – and Abdullah Abdullah, Karzai’s opponent, has already from the runoff —...
Alternet (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... an effective "democratic" partner in Afghanistan, the foreigners stepped in: Senator John Kerry, Richard Holbrooke, and other envoys appeared in Kabul or made telephone calls to sweet somethings in ears and . The result was a of voting slated for November 7th and likely only to the initial injury. No matter -- and Abdullah Abdullah, Karzai's opponent, has already from the runoff --...
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Why Vietnam Matters -- a book recommended recently by George Packer of The New Yorker -- gets interesting before you come across a single word written by the book's author. Richard Holbrooke, the president's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, wrote a foreword for the book which might hold hints of the future. The book came out before Obama won the presidency and, therefore, before...
The Torch (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Two pretty hard line views: 1) Wall St. Journal : Waiting for Obama Hamid Karzai isn't the biggest problem in Afghanistan. ... The Obama Administration...hurt its own cause by preparing inadequately for the election, and by broadcasting so publicly its distaste for Mr. Karzai. Both Vice President Joe Biden and special envoy Richard Holbrooke had showdowns with the Afghan leader that were...
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... so publicly its distaste for Mr. Karzai. Both Vice President Joe Biden and special envoy Richard Holbrooke had showdowns with the Afghan leader that were ostentatiously leaked. The point seems to have been to show they could be tougher on Mr. Karzai than President Bush was. But the price of that pique is that they now have less influence as they press the Afghan to improve the competence...
Ensaios Imperfeitos (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... Brown, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, US special representative on Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, and UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon all spoke by phone with Karzai, telling him that the runoff was essential to the “legitimacy” of the election and his regime itself. Now, barely two weeks later, Washington and its allies are all insisting that the cancellation...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... tortured process in Afghanistan, which was orchestrated by expending a lot of political capital by Richard Holbrooke, US special envoy, and US senator John Kerry only showed the limits of American persuasion in Afghanistan. It's only likely to make it more difficult for the Americans to work closely with Karzai. For Karzai's part, he knows well that he will have to work with Washington,...
