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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Holbrooke Says Handling of Afghan War Shameful


Special US envoy Richard Holbrooke conceded on Wednesday that the US-led coalition in Afghanistan has neglected the country.

Holbrooke, the US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said in an interview with Germany's daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung that the US and its NATO allies have to start institution-building from scratch nine years after the invasion.

"The whole thing was uncoordinated and did not get us very far. The upshot is that in the ninth year of the war we are starting from scratch," Holbrooke said, while acknowledging that cooperation between allies had been chaotic throughout the war.'

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