Over at Informed Consent, Juan Cole writes:
The [Kerry-Lugar Pakistan] aid bill is also controversial in Washington, where a US AID official has complained about the plan to funnel it through Pakistani contractors rather than through American ones. The Agency for International Development official maintained that Pakistani organizations cannot be monitored effectively by the US, [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Richard Holbrooke’
April 1, 2009
“That wasn’t a date…”
Did they shake hands? Did they chat? Was there a peck on the cheek? As with all first dates, it depends on who you talk to.
The New York Times reported that a pair of top diplomats from the U.S. and Iran had a polite chat at an international conference on Afghanistan this Tuesday. According to [...]
January 28, 2009
Article: India lobbies against inclusion in Richard Holbrooke’s brief
India’s stealth lobbying against Holbrooke’s brief
Foreign Policy magazine
Fri, 01/23/2009 – 7:12pm
When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — flanked by President Obama — introduced Richard Holbrooke as the formidable new U.S. envoy to South Asia at a State Department ceremony on Thursday, India was noticeably absent from his title.
