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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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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Ultimately the decision as to what happens will be made by the decisions and actions of the Yugoslav leadership. They have the power to stop this tragedy. They have the power to take action to reverse it.
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We are at the brink. Time is short.
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There are certain kinds of second-tier confrontations which the U.S. does not need to get directly involved in. However, even in the second tier of problems, our intervention as a friend to both sides is important.
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We want to change it from a New York institution with regional branches into a global institution with a New York headquarters.
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The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.
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I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.
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The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al Qaeda, two, lay down their arms and renounce violence, and three, participate in the public political life of the country in accordance with the constitution.
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By the way, if you do your job on behalf of your country, you have meetings where you put your position forward strongly, and the other side does the same thing. And I've had plenty of meetings in my career that really were heated, people yelling at each other.
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You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
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We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.
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People in uniform are not sacrosanct. They don't have all the answers. The use of force is a political decision at its core, in terms of its objectives; then the military, as the experts, must be brought in to tell you how to do it.
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In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.