WASHINGTON – the Obama management appointed an Acting Special Representative on Pakistan and Afghanistan after the death of U.S. Envoy Richard Holbrooke, push with the strategies, swears that he championed for end of the 10-year Afghan war.
But Mr Holbrooke's passing new to Monday is also spark a debate in Washington over US strategy in Afghanistan during the same week when the White House is set to release a new review of his war balance.
Reuters Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Center, visit Pakistan seen last year.Afghan experts said on Tuesday that many Mr Holbrooke on the civil side policies still have to gain traction, as violence in Afghanistan persists.
Mr Holbrooke, 69-year-old career diplomat, was instrumental in the development of the current U.S. focus on compatibility with elements of the Taliban in a bid to forge a political solution. He led a tripling of civilian personnel works within Afghanistan as a means of economic development and better governance.
"I think Holbrooke's achievement is that he understood it not only military solution to the war", said Christine fair, a Georgetown University expert in Afghanistan and Pakistan. "But it still seems not, as we have the right components in place."
Tuesday's praised members of the Capitol Hill and current and former U.S. officials Mr Holbrooke quest for peace in Viet Nam and the former Yugoslavia. Condolences flowed in Washington from countries and regions including Japan, Pakistan and the Balkans, where the diplomat and author most control of his career almost 40 year instead.
State Department spokesman p.j. Crowley told reporters that Mr Holbrooke on stabilisation of Afghanistan, even when the talk to medical staff Friday night after suffering a torn aorta focused. Doctors at the George Washington University Hospital performed more than 20 hours after the operation in a bid to save his life.
"I can not erholenIch worried about Afghanistan and am Pakistan," Mr Holbrooke said medical staff, according to Mr Crowley. The State Department spokesman said Exchange was told by two people who were in the hospital.
The State Department, said Frank Ruggiero, a career civil servant and former Deputy, Mr Holbrooke, was named Deputy Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, had. Mr Ruggiero accompanied Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to a meeting at the White House Tuesday morning.
Obama management also said it largely maintained would the Organization Mr Holbrooke Foreign Ministry first floor, Afghanistan and Pakistan policy introduced to coordinate. The Office includes dozens of experts in agriculture, anti money laundering, and Central Asian tribes and political parties.
"We will make minor adjustments or tweaks, but expect the review still was to reaffirm the directive burden on Ambassador Holbrooke helped to develop and implement on behalf of the President", said Mr Crowley.
As Washington Mr Holbrooke mourned reverse but further debate on the recent setbacks in Afghanistan.
Congressional officials said, it was important that Mr Holbrooke ultimately from an other diplomatic heavy hitter succeed to ensure that the civilian side of the US strategy receives the attention it deserves. The civilian "surge" has in recent months to expire an initial picked up with more than 1,000 people now within Afghanistan.
"This is the person who go the quarterback to toe to toe with the military should be." If you're not going to have convinced a heavyweight, it folds should up, ", said an official of the Congress.
Also, some analysts said that Mr Holbrooke of successor could try a softer approach towards leaders in the region. The Special Representative had a testy relationship with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. And Mr Holbrooke with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, whose Government widely with corruption and lack of resolve in the fight against the Taliban was linked was become frustrated.
Many officials who have worked on Afghanistan yet, said the country suffers the same evils as South Vietnam in the 1960s - where Mr Holbrooke first his teeth as a junior foreign service officer cut. There was the United States his allies, partly due to the inefficiency and weakness his Government to stabilize. The same could be true for Kabul's Government.
"It always will be difficult to execute a policy if you do not have a partnership," said fair.
-Adam Entous contributed to this article.Write toJay Solomon at the jay.solomon@wsj.com
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