WASHINGTON — Legendary diplomat Richard Holbrooke's final assignment — running the civilian effort to bring peace and security to Afghanistan and Pakistan — may have been the most daunting of his career. His death Monday before he had a chance to finish that work leaves his legacy incomplete and creates a gap in the Obama administration's ongoing effort to lay the groundwork for peace.
As the major focus remains on military operations, Holbrooke "probably died before his moment in this war arrived," said Robert Lamb, an expert on Afghanistan at the non-partisan Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Holbrooke apparently worried that his work wasn't done, even to the end. As doctors prepared for a 21-hour surgery over the weekend to repair his torn aorta, they had trouble getting him to relax, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Tuesday.
"At one point, the medical team said, 'You've got to relax,' " Crowley reported after consulting with several people who were in the room. "And Richard said, 'I can't relax. I'm worried about Afghanistan and Pakistan.' And then after some additional exchanges, the medical team finally said, 'Well, tell you what. We'll try to fix this challenge while you're undergoing surgery.' And he said, 'Yeah, see if you can take care of that, including ending the war.'
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