Remarks of the Spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
about the Sudden Death of Holbrooke
Muharram 07, 1432 A.H, Tuesday, December 14, 2010
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
According to credible news agencies of
the world, the American president’s Special Envoy for
Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, died in George
Washington’s University hospital at the age of 69. He had been
suffering from a heart’s disease for the past days.
Appointed on 22nd January 2009, as special envoy for
Afghanistan/ Pakistan, Holbrooke was keeping an eye on the
Afghan issue. Some times ago, he told reporters that he had
been passing through a difficult phase of his life, exerting
crippling and sapping pressure on him. He passed out in his
exclusive office for Afghanistan and regional affairs on
Friday last, following his above-mentioned reveals and his
life of toils and fatigues ended after admission into a
hospital where he breathed his last yesterday.
The American rulers have not made any remarks about the cause
of his sudden death in view of the sensitivity of the issue
but rumors have it that this giant of the American politics
and diplomacy became ill with a heart disease when his
previous fame and credibility came under question after the
unremitting failures of the mission of Afghanistan and his
facing the difficult task. The protracted Afghan war and the
descending trajectory of the Americans’ handling of the
warfare in the country had had a lethal dent on Holbrook’s
health as a high-ranking American official. He was grappling
with a constant psychological stress.
Emergence of this untoward phenomenon as
an off-shoot of the Afghan issue is not now a strange thing.
The same was the case with the former Soviet Union as the
crisis touched its climax. Former Soviet leaders Brezhnev,
Konstantin Cherninkove and Vladimir Andropov had heart attacks
in a short time distance before the coming to scene of Michael
Gorbachove. They relieved themselves of the hard task of the
Afghan mission by retreating into the lap of death.
The recent symptoms are indicating that an outbreak of the
same epidemic diseases has started in the political and
military echelons of America.
A few months ago, an American four stars
general, general David Peteraeus, fainted during a senate
hearing when he faced tough questions as regards the issue of
Afghanistan. The end of Holbrooke, the fate of general Mc
Crystal and the defense Secretary Robert Gate’s warning to
step down show that the war of Afghanistan is heavily weighing
down on the psyche of the American military and political
high-ups. Some of them lighten their burden by simply going to
the other world and others, while being still alive, choose to
avoid shouldering the mission.
The sudden death of a high-ranking American diplomat happens
in a time that American strategists under the chair of Obama
have been reviewing the issue of Afghanistan for the past few
days. They will expectedly announce their decision soon.
We believe Holbrooke’s timely death could
have a didactic effect on the American strategists, teaching
them many things to learn. In view of the American
entanglement in the aggravating swamp of Afghanistan, the
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan calls on the American
powers-that-be to abandon their dream of military domination
and colonial sway in Afghanistan. Their formulation of new
military strategies will never change the imminent defeat into
a victory in the country. Still if they are bent on continuing
with the status quo, they will face many unexpected events and
imbroglios. Their political and military circles will have to
grapple with constant crisis and untoward situations. Nothing
more than that, they will achieve.
Qari Yousuf Ahamadi
Spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan