Holbrooke Draws Comparisons To Rwanda In Advocating Obama's AfPak Policy

Obama Ambassador Defends Obama War Plan: Remember Rwanda

The rollout of Barack Obama's Afghanistan-Pakistan policy has largely focused on a variety of military and diplomatic objectives, from the training of forces to serve in both country's armies and police forces to procedures to eradicate the drug trade crippling the Afghan economy.
In a briefing with reporters on Friday, however, Obama's chief ambassador to the region, Richard Holbrooke, offered a humanitarian justification for the administration's approach. And he did so by drawing parallels to one of America's most glaring failures on this front: the genocide in Rwanda.
Defending Obama's policy as being appropriately fluid and open to new proposals, Holbrooke noted that simple adjustments, like influencing the mediums of communication in the region, could have major humanitarian effects.