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No. I am saying that the context listed by Holbrooke's family is the true one. Doubtless Holbrooke discussed Pakistan with his family and they knew his true feelings well - and they also knew how their words would be received in the diplomatic community. (If anything, the family's grief makes it more likely their words would be more direct and less guarded than usual.) The Administration isn't necessarily "lying", just trying to de-emphasize Holbrooke's words to "smooth" things out.No, the wonder is how you still continue to cling to a half-arsed analysis vilifying Pakistan based on a snippet of Holbrooke's comments, comments that have clearly been shown to be out of context...As for your suggestion that the US administration is lying and concocted the detailed Holbrooke comments -
You can be sure Holbrooke would have understood and disapproved of this, yet continue to obey his bosses, hoping they would (as Kissinger put it) eventually agree with him, and the earlier the less painful that would be.
And you, AM, are still continuing to hide from the implications of Holbrooke's last testament, is that not so? Or did I possibly miss something? Can you point to any post you've written where you've pressed for Pakistanis to do something specific to take responsibility for their own fate and that of their neighbors and seek to improve matters, rather than reflexively and defensively blame the U.S.?