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Richard Holbrooke's View Of The World

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There is no global leader that has affected my view of the world, but one has absolutely influenced how I would formulate a view of the world, and then act upon it; that someone is Richard Holbrooke. The way he handled the civil war in the former-Yugoslavia should serve as an example to how every diplomat should deal with any challenge facing the United States.
Holbrooke had a no-nonsense approach: he decided what he wanted to accomplish, how to do it, and then did it. During the civil war in Yugoslavia, the Serbs committed acts of genocide. Russia, with an ethnic affinity to the Slavic Serbs, wanted the rest of the world to remain neutral and let the Serbs continue their atrocities. At the time, Russia became temporarily democratic, and the

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