"Richard Holbrooke: Kennedy Democrat The savior of Sarajevo believed that American power should be used for good." from the Wall Street Journal by FOUAD AJAMI

Richard Holbrooke, who died this week at age 69, loved epigraphs. They are strewn all over his writings—poems and passages from Euripides, W.H. Auden, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot, the diplomatist and historian Harold Nicolson. An epigraph from Herman Melville turns up early in Holbrooke's remarkable chronicle of his experience in the Balkans, "To End a War" (1998). "With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts." Holbrooke lived the life of his choice, driven by that itch. The Holbrooke story could have ended in the Mekong Delta, where as a young man he served as "pacification adviser." He could have perished, as three of his colleagues traveling with him did, in the summer of 1995, on the treacherous Mount Igman road to Sarajevo. Mr. Ajami is a professor at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

See that article here. The other day, the Dutch newspaper, DeVerdieping Trouw wrote this [a translation from its original dutch:

When Bill Clinton became president in 1993 he returned to government and government, first as ambassador to Germany and then in Washington as Assistant Secretary for European Affairs. In 1996, Holbrooke at his own request relieved from that post because he wanted to spend more time on his marriage to writer Kati Marton, his third wife. He married her in 1995, the year of 'Dayton'. About his role as architect of the peace treaty he wrote the book "To End a War." In the aftermath claimed the former political leader of Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic, the ICTY last year that Holbrooke him in exchange for his departure from politics was promised immunity from prosecution. The diplomat denied that strongly.

See that Dutch article, here. See also: No Man's Land, Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat, Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia