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Holbrooke's appointment a disaster: Report
NDTV.com: Holbrooke's appointment a disaster: Report
As US Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke heads to South Asia, a write up in the US is making the point that President Barack Obama's high profile appointment is nothing but a disaster if the past is anything to go by.
"President Obama's appointment of Richard Holbrooke is nothing less than a declaration of war on Afghanistan, Pakistan and the region," wrote Grant Marcus in Ventura Country Reporter, published out of California.
"Wherever Holbrooke has gone US aggressive policies of power and war have followed him," said the write up.
Marcus alleged that it was Holbrooke who helped "prop up Premier Diem in Vietnam, a ruthless dictator who lynched, tortured and beheaded thousands of South Vietnamese who wouldn't go along with Diem's junta".
Holbrooke, who was the youngest adviser appointed by President Kennedy, stayed on to have critical influence on Lyndon B Johnson presidency, and was a key determinant in his escalating the war, it said.
"Richard Holbrooke's dark history does not stop there. There were brutal policies in the Philippines when he was ambassador to Asia, and he was shoulder-to-shoulder with Suharto, the brutal dictator in East Timor," the write up alleged.
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War on:-
Afghanistan - we know happening.
Pakistan - started to happen.
Region??
NDTV.com: Holbrooke's appointment a disaster: Report
As US Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke heads to South Asia, a write up in the US is making the point that President Barack Obama's high profile appointment is nothing but a disaster if the past is anything to go by.
"President Obama's appointment of Richard Holbrooke is nothing less than a declaration of war on Afghanistan, Pakistan and the region," wrote Grant Marcus in Ventura Country Reporter, published out of California.
"Wherever Holbrooke has gone US aggressive policies of power and war have followed him," said the write up.
Marcus alleged that it was Holbrooke who helped "prop up Premier Diem in Vietnam, a ruthless dictator who lynched, tortured and beheaded thousands of South Vietnamese who wouldn't go along with Diem's junta".
Holbrooke, who was the youngest adviser appointed by President Kennedy, stayed on to have critical influence on Lyndon B Johnson presidency, and was a key determinant in his escalating the war, it said.
"Richard Holbrooke's dark history does not stop there. There were brutal policies in the Philippines when he was ambassador to Asia, and he was shoulder-to-shoulder with Suharto, the brutal dictator in East Timor," the write up alleged.
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War on:-
Afghanistan - we know happening.
Pakistan - started to happen.
Region??
