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Richard Holbrooke: The Man Who Knew How to End a War

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Richard Holbrooke, President Obama’s special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan and famed diplomat, died of heart failure yesterday. He was 69. Holbrooke was the man that many presidents had turned to when they wanted to find a way to end a war. In the mid-1990s, Holbrooke helped broker the peace accords that ended the war […]

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Richard Holbrooke’s life and last words

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Richard Holbrooke’s legacy all over Afghanistan, Pakistan

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George Packer on Richard Holbrooke

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Remembering Richard Holbrooke

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After Holbrooke: diplomatic changing of the guard in Afghanistan

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Today in Washington, the diplomatic world remembers Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke. Holbrooke died on December 13th after suffering a torn aorta. He was 69. Since his death, Arnold Fields, the top auditor of reconstruction funds in Afghanistan, has resigned. Before doing so, he fired two of his top deputies. Are we […]

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Richard Holbrooke’s long road in Afghanistan

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We talk to BBC correspondent Nick Childs about a leaked report from the top commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan on troop levels there. Then we speak to New Yorker correspondent George Packer about his profile of veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke.

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President appoints envoys to troubled regions

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President Obama visited the State Department, appointing two special envoys to troubled regions. The New York Times’ Mark Landler joins us with a look at these two appointments and what they say about the new President’s foreign policy strategy.

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Reporter’s path twice crossed by Holbrooke

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The late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke intervened personally to help David Rohde, twice: once in 1995 when he was detained by the Bosnian Serbs, and again after he was kidnapped by Taliban in 2008. Rohde shares his thoughts with anchor Lisa Mullins.

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True giant of American foreign policy’

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Veteran US diplomat Richard Holbrooke has died. Ambassador Holbrooke was best-known for helping to broker the Dayton Peace agreement. Jeb Sharp reports on what Holbrooke was able to achieve in the first two years of the Obama Administration.