And Holbrooke had to get the Croat and Bosnian leaders to accept the loss of some prewar territory after their people had been massacred. Holbrooke had to make Milosevic halt Serbia’s military advance and, even harder, take responsibility for the Bosnian Serbs slaughtering people in Serbia’s name - war criminals whom Milosevic claimed he didn’t control. armed forces to bomb Serb troops at a time when Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell was advancing his eponymous doctrine: Use only overwhelming force, including ground troops, or else stand down. “Sometimes the two instincts got out of whack.” But they combined beautifully when President Bill Clinton sent Holbrooke to end the Bosnian war, a task at which nobody else could have succeeded. Idealism without egotism is feckless egotism without idealism is destructive,” Packer argues, riffing on Conrad. Egotism and idealism “need each other to do any good. He was “brilliant and curious and widely read,” Packer kvells in one ovation, but he was also “unafraid to face the truth, cared enough to act on it, and was willing to take the consequences.” So when Serbs and Croats and Bosnians began killing each other in the early ’90s, Holbrooke was among the first to agitate for intervention - a policy that eventually saved tens of thousands of lives. These conflicts “sorted most foreign policy types into extreme hawks and doves,” but they turned Holbrooke into a liberal internationalist. Perhaps he did.) He “was the first American official to denounce the crimes of the Khmer Rouge,” though it didn’t change U.S. (“He believed that he knew more than any American official in Vietnam,” Packer writes. “The phrase ‘great man’ now sounds anachronistic, but as an inspiration for human striving maybe we shouldn’t throw out the whole idea.” And, sure, let’s give Holbrooke his due: He apprehended the folly of Vietnam at an absurdly early date. Packer believes one needn’t be good to do good things, and he is openly romantic about it. It’s even worse than you’ve heard,” Packer summarizes. “You will have heard that he was a monstrous egotist. When a mentor, Averell Harriman, died, Holbrooke harangued his widow into letting him give a eulogy then he shuffled the name cards at a meal after the service so he could “chat up the right dinner guest.” Packer thinks Holbrooke never interested himself in Middle East peace because “it was too easy to piss off American Jewish organizations and hurt himself on his climb.” Holbrooke begged Pakistan’s foreign minister to tell Secretary of State Hillary Clinton what a good job he was doing. (“Maybe they deserved it,” Packer offers.) He crashed so many of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance’s meetings and motorcades that Vance’s secretary sent a memo: “You may not insert yourself as a passenger in the Secretary’s car unless this office has specifically approved your request to accompany him.” When national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski wanted him fired for chatting “warmly” with the Vietnamese ambassador in Laos before Washington restored relations with Hanoi, he lied and said the report of the meeting was just an act of Soviet disinformation. We have estimated Billy Packer's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.What does government service look like when it’s so self-serving? When Holbrooke became assistant secretary of state, he told the deputies he’d inherited that their offices needed repainting - and then replaced them while they were out. So, how much is Billy Packer worth at the age of 83 years old? Billy Packer’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. His wife is Barbara (? - present) ( 3 children) Family We will update Billy Packer's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. Billy Packer Height, Weight & MeasurementsĪt 83 years old, Billy Packer height not available right now. He is a member of famous Actor with the age 83 years old group. We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 25 February. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old? Popular As Discover Billy Packer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Billy Packer was born on 25 February, 1940 in Wellsville, New York, USA, is an Actor.
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