In August 2009, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard C. Holbrooke told the New York Times that “concurrent with the insurgency is an information war,” as he discussed the new U.S. effort of up to $150 million a year (to be led by him) to counter the Taliban’s well-oiled propaganda machine. “We are losing that war,” he confessed.
Now, seven months following the Times interview, Ambassador Holbrooke sings the same tune, even if slightly out of pitch.
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