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| Richard Holbrooke Has Died at 69 |
| 2010-12-14 |
| Richard Holbrooke, the US Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, has died. On Friday, Holbrooke was rushed to the hospital with a torn aorta. He went through more than 20 hours of surgery. Earlier this evening, speaking at the US State Department, President Obama sang Holbrooke's praises and called him "a tough son of a gun." Holbrooke, 69, was a former ambassador to the United Nations and served as chief negotiator at the Dayton Peace Accords, which ended the war in Bosnia. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 The news cites him tell his Pakistani Doctor jut before going under to "..stop this war". Was he in Pakistan and in a Paki hospital? |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2010-12-14 14:01 |
| #4 Best diplomacy for the Paks would be to tell them to FOAD. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-12-14 12:42 |
| #3 Holbrooke was 69? For some reason, I have this mental image of him as an eternally pugnacious 53, 54. Of course, I have to remind myself occasionally that the Clintons are in their sixties, too, now. Time marches on. He did some good in his life, here and there, and that's about as much as you can hope for in politics or diplomacy. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2010-12-14 10:35 |
| #2 RIP. I was never as big a fan of him as he was |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-12-14 10:05 |
| #1 RIP |
| Posted by: 746 2010-12-14 09:57 |