Richard Holbrooke

January 30, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Final Obama Scandal

Co-written by Stephen F. Hayes.  Less than 24 hours before the official end of the Obama presidency, while White House staffers were pulling pictures off the walls and cle...

June 3, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn

Slow Release

A few more documents from the bin Laden raid are finally revealed. They do not flatter the judgment of the Obama administration.

May 29, 2015 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Transformational Diplomacy

Many supporters of an Iranian nuclear agreement believe that a deal could help to moderate, even democratize, Iranian society. Barack Obama’s constant allusions to the transformative potent...

January 29, 2014 | Bill Roggio

Karzai Gambles with the Taliban

Just when you thought Afghan President Hamid Karzai couldn’t distance himself further from the US and the West, which have propped him up for over a decade, he surprises you. The exact reas...

June 13, 2011 | The Spectator |

Nice Work: The Taxpayer is Being Stung So This Lord Can Live in Admiralty House

Co-Authored by James Forsyth Mark Malloch-Brown, the minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, was the most prestigious recruit to Gordon Brown’s ministry of all the talents....

January 17, 2011 | The Weekly Standard

Fatal Intersection

Although many Americans and Europeans would like to believe that contemporary Islamic fundamentalism is an exclusive subsidiary of the Koran, the sharia, and other things tribal and Islamic, the...

July 12, 2010 | The Long War Journal

Karzai Pushes for Removal of Ex-Taliban Officials from UN Blacklist

The Washington Post reports that Afghan president Hamid Karzai "plans to seek the r...

June 28, 2010 |

American Diplomacy, Pakistan, and July 2011

In September 2009, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke sat down for...

June 23, 2010 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report

Obama’ s Teachable Moment: Getting to Know the General

Rolling Stone’s piece on The Runaway General hit the web, and presto! before the print edition was even on the newsstands, Gen. Stanley McChrystal was ordered back to Washington for a sitdo...

October 26, 2009 |

Unfortunately, Failure Is an Option

By Reuel Marc Gerecht and Lawrence B. Lindsey One of the standard accoutrements of the decision making process in the West Wing is the three-option "decision memorandum...

February 26, 2009 | |

Obama The Appeaser?

Imagine Reagan tearing down 'that wall' with 'engagement.'

February 6, 2007 | |

At the United Nations, the Curious Career of Maurice Strong

Before the United Nations can save the planet, it needs to clean up its own house. And as scandal after scandal has unfolded over the past decade, from Oil for Food to procurement fraud to peacek...

November 15, 2006 | The New York Sun |

The Courtier to Annan

Not so long ago, Kofi Annan was up to his ears in the Oil for Food scandal, and his legacy as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations was on its way down the drain. He was ducking que...

September 26, 2006 | National Review Online

Yes, Our Iraq Policy Has Helped al Qaeda Recruit…

Another day, another New York Times publication of classified information.  Another election cycle, another strategic intelligence-community leak transparently designed to affect th...

August 11, 2006 | The Washington Post |

The Only Option Is to Win

Yesterday on this page, in a serious and thoughtful survey of a world in crisis, Richard Holbrooke listed 13 countries that could be involved in violence in the near future: Lebanon, Israel, Iraq...

July 9, 2003 | Clifford D. May |

Darn that Newt!

Richard Holbrooke is a diplomat and a gentleman. Which means you can't read him the way you'd read Ann Coulter, Bill Safire, Tony Blankley  or others who make their livings spe...