The best Holbrooke of all worlds.
RIP Richard Holbrooke. Good friend of the family died the other day and my Aunt die this morning.
His death after emergency surgery Friday for a torn aorta was confirmed by sources to ABC News White House Correspondent Jake Tapper. Ive been surrounded by a lot of death lately and I am not liking it.
Richard Holbrooke who died today wrote an important diplomatic memoir To End A War about his involvement in Bosnia.
Washington CNN Richard C.
Out for a longoverdue drinks and dinner with foreignpolicyoriented friends tonight all of a sudden our phones buzz. Holbrooke the highoctane diplomat who spearheaded the end of the Bosnian war and most recently served as the Obama administrations point man in the volatile AfghanPakistani war zone has died.
Holbrooke Obamas special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan has been described as a giant of U. diplomats of his generation died Monday after a short sudden illness. So I imagine that more than a few readers are wondering why were giving such major treatment to the death of.
Richard Holbrooke who died Monday may well have been Americas greatest diplomat of the past several decades. Torn aorta took him. Holbrooke underwent surgery for. Hospitalized Friday at George Washington University Hospital in Washington D.
Diplomacy is a paradoxically insular world.
Richard Holbrooke one of the most prominent U.
Several colleagues were surprised to hear that Holbrooke had suffered a serious health issue having seen him in recent days at various highprofile diplomatic events that were part of a jampacked schedule. None of us know quite what to say. Richard Holbrooke the most distinguished diplomat of his generation has died. And most of the nations foreign affairs get little treatment in the headlines.
