Holbrooke’s Legacy
As the panegyrics to Richard Holbrooke spread over the internet like a thickening fog, the real legacy of this State Department apparatchik came across the news wires a few hours after his death: “Kosovo's prime minister is the head of a "mafia-like" Albanian...
Richard Holbrooke: Bulldozer Stuck in the Mud
Strobe Talbott once called Richard Holbrooke the "diplomatic equivalent of a hydrogen bomb." Oh, the many ways we could interpret that today. When Talbott, Bill Clinton's deputy secretary of state and a friend of Holbrooke, made that comment to the New York...
