From the Archive: Let Us Not Praise the Late Richard Holbrooke: 200,000 Skeletons in Richard Holbrooke's Closet by Sunil K. Sharma

From the Archive: Let Us Not Praise the Late Richard Holbrooke

200,000 Skeletons in Richard Holbrooke's Closet

by Sunil K. Sharma / December 18th, 2010 (9)

[Editor's Note: Another errand boy for the empire has passed. Richard Holbrooke, the Obama Administration's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan and a veteran diplomat, died last Monday. True to form, the mainstream press has been falling over itself in canonizing "The Bulldozer", as he was called. The saintly glow that frames the man's name in the media's outpouring of adulation masks the dark diplomat's terrible misdeeds through administrations Republican and Democratic. The following article was written over 11 years ago, and it explores a little known chapter in Holbrooke's career that doubtless will be passed over by corporate media.]
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