Matthew Yglesias says Richard Holbrooke represents a bygone era when America was represented primarily by diplomats, not generals.
Indeed, in some ways Holbrooke seems almost like the last statesman, a figure plucked from a time when diplomacy really mattered and America was represented abroad primarily by diplomats rather than generals. But no one who was so deeply involved in formulating and articulating the Democratic Party’s foreign-policy vision for so long could be immune to its pathologies.