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holbrook did offer me that position. he told me 95% of what i had written he agreed with. left and he talked me into taking that job. i went home, took the train back home to arlington and thought about it. a few days later i called back and said i cannot do it because i did not resign just to get myself promoted. i quit because i was quitting the wars. i am really done. i cannot do this any longer. i thought nothing i did would have any impact. nothing i would have worked on would have changed the war. the decision had already been made. i can tell you this from discussions with holbrook and the ambassador, they were voices of dissent of escalating the war, but they were shut down by secretary clinton. secretary clinton was very much in favor of escalating the war. you could see this very clearly, stories written in the "new york another book. secretary clinton was very enthusiastic about escalating the afghan war to the point that holbrook had no voice. i knew that. it may no sense for me to join that team. brian: 10 years later and one of the reasons we asked you to com

did you talk to richard holbrook about this? capt. hoh: i did. went to see him at the waldorf-astoria in new york. brian: what was he doing? capt. hoh: he was up at the united nations general assembly. i met with him in his bedroom. he was on his bed drinking a purple gatorade. he was shuttling in between all these different meetings. i had just met the u.k. ambassador to afghanistan who later wrote a book about the war, and how the war is unwinnable. not just unwinnable, that it was a moral failure. holbrook did offer me that position. he told me 95% of what i had written he agreed with. i left and he talked me into taking that job. i went home, took the train back home to arlington and thought about it. a few days later i called back and said i cannot do it because i did not resign just to get myself promoted. i quit because i was quitting the wars. i am really done. i cannot do this any longer. i also knew that nothing i did would have any impact. nothing i would have worked on would have changed the war. the decision had already been made. i

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