Richard Holbrooke
Richard Holbrooke
Richard Charles Albert Holbrookewas an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, professor, Peace Corps official, and investment banker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth24 April 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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one of the worst of the people in the region -- a racist, a separatist, a war criminal ...
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I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.
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This place has been a mess for a long time, but a different kind of mess. The war was messy, the decade that preceded the war was messy, the history back to 1912 was messy ... and the task is immense,
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I think it's very important for all Americans, whether they opposed the war or supported to it, whether they are liberals or conservatives, Republicans, Democrat or independents, to be able to say with pride we won -- to embrace the victory -- even as we begin to discuss the very difficult decisions that lie ahead,
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I think it's quite clear that his nationalism contributed to the wars in the Balkans,
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We hope to bring the parties back to the negotiating table, ... but the hope to avoid war is very small.
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The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
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World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
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I know that the Germans are very unhappy about these withdrawals. The Koreans are going to be equally unhappy. How can we withdraw troops from Korea while engaged in a delicate negotiation with the North Koreans? And there's a country that really does have weapons of mass destruction.
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That is why we are here today, to continue the progress,
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It was his ruthlessness and vision that helped to create Bosnia and Herzegovina,
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I'm passionate about this. He's probably the most tested person in the world. Everywhere he travels he gets tested, preferably with the Minister of Health!
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I'm sorry I'm unable to go into any details at all-- you'll understand why, ... I can only say that we remain on an intense effort to find a peaceful and satisfactory outcome to what can only be called an emergency while in another part of Europe -- Brussels -- NATO continues to move in a very different form.
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It was a grim briefing. U.S. diplomatic observers are doing a terrific job bringing us information, and the information is not good.