The Washington Post reports President-elect Barack Obama is seriously considering making former ambassador Richard Holbrooke his envoy to South Asia. Such an appointment would put Holbrooke in charge of trying to resolve issues surrounding Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. During the 1970s, Holbrooke served as Assistant Secretary of State in charge of East Asia policy in the Carter administration. In this role, he oversaw the shipment of weapons to the Indonesian military as they illegally invaded East Timor, killing a third of Timor’s population. In the 1990s Holbrooke was seen as one of the key figures in the dismantling of Yugoslavia.