Richard Holbrooke served under four democratic administrations beginning with Lyndon Johnson. Acclaimed for his pursuit of peace and love of America, he is known for brokering a peace accord with Bosnia in 1995. However, he is lesser known for his involvement in providing weapons to Indonesias army, which killed 1/3 of the population in East Timor. He also played a key role in aiding South Korea against a pro-democracy uprising. It seems his morals are back and forth, sometimes left, sometimes right. He is well known and respected amongst corporate media, and was a prominent democratic supporter of the war in Iraq. Now, as he passes away at age 69, his final words to his Pakistani surgeon were, "You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan."
quote from Democracy Now!
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