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Posts Tagged ‘Richard Holbrooke’

Karadžić to appeal latest court ruling

Radovan Karadžić will appeal a decision by the Hague Tribunal trial chamber to turn down his earlier motion for the charges against him to be dropped. The former Bosnian Serb leader’s motion was based on his claim that he was granted immunity in 1996 in an agreement signed with U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke.

Simon Jenkins: Britain Must Tell Obama: The Alliance of Denial Has to End

President Obama now owns Afghanistan. As a result, he and his British ally, Gordon Brown, are sucked into mendacity that is on the scale of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.

Jonathan Morgenstein: An Endstate Strategy in Afghanistan, Not Exit Strategy

Exit strategy implies that the top military priority is getting our troops out. An endstate strategy envisions what we want the conditions on the ground to look like and figures out how to get there.