The Tragedy of Richard Holbrooke

Instead, in 2009, eager to return to government, Holbrooke took the lesser job he was offered, as the president?s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, or ?Af-Pak,? as he soon called it. He found himself, for the third time in his career, working within but not quite at the top of a Democratic administration, obliged to serve under those who seemed to know less history (and fewer powerful people) than he did. He was working for a secretary of state whom he had tutored in foreign policy and for a president who had been seven years old in 1968, when Holbrooke began working for Harriman at the Paris peace talks on Vietnam.

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