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"One diplomat's darkly humorous and ultimately scathing assault on just about everything the military and State Department have done―or tried to do―since the invasion of Iraq. The title says it all."―The New York Times
Charged with rebuilding Iraq, would you spend taxpayer money on a sports mural in Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhood to promote reconciliation through art? How about an isolated milk factory that cannot get its milk to market? Or a pastry class training women to open cafés on bombed-out streets that lack water and electricity?
As Peter Van Buren shows, we bought all these projects and more in the most expensive hearts-and-minds campaign since the Marshall Plan. We Meant Well is his eyewitness account of the civilian side of the surge―that surreal and bollixed attempt to defeat terrorism and win over Iraqis by reconstructing the world we had just destroyed. Leading a State Department Provincial Reconstruction Team on its quixotic mission, Van Buren details, with laser-like irony, his yearlong encounter with pointless projects, bureaucratic fumbling, overwhelmed soldiers, and oblivious administrators secluded in the world's largest embassy, who fail to realize that you can't rebuild a country without first picking up the trash.
A work of "scathing, gallows humor" (The Boston Globe), We Meant Well is a tragicomic voyage of ineptitude and corruption that leaves its writer―and readers―appalled and disillusioned, but wiser.
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We Meant Well American Empire Project PETER VAN BUREN Books Reviews :
"One diplomat's darkly humorous and ultimately scathing assault on just about everything the military and State Department have done―or tried to do―since the invasion of Iraq. The title says it all."―The New York Times
Charged with rebuilding Iraq, would you spend taxpayer money on a sports mural in Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhood to promote reconciliation through art? How about an isolated milk factory that cannot get its milk to market? Or a pastry class training women to open cafés on bombed-out streets that lack water and electricity?
As Peter Van Buren shows, we bought all these projects and more in the most expensive hearts-and-minds campaign since the Marshall Plan. We Meant Well is his eyewitness account of the civilian side of the surge―that surreal and bollixed attempt to defeat terrorism and win over Iraqis by reconstructing the world we had just destroyed. Leading a State Department Provincial Reconstruction Team on its quixotic mission, Van Buren details, with laser-like irony, his yearlong encounter with pointless projects, bureaucratic fumbling, overwhelmed soldiers, and oblivious administrators secluded in the world's largest embassy, who fail to realize that you can't rebuild a country without first picking up the trash.
A work of "scathing, gallows humor" (The Boston Globe), We Meant Well is a tragicomic voyage of ineptitude and corruption that leaves its writer―and readers―appalled and disillusioned, but wiser.
PETER VAN BUREN,We Meant Well (American Empire Project),Metropolitan,0805096817,Iraq - Relations - United States,Iraq War, 2003- - Public opinion,Iraq War, 2003-2011;Public opinion.,Postwar reconstruction - Iraq,Postwar reconstruction;Iraq.,Public opinion - Iraq,United States - Relations - Iraq,United States;Relations;Iraq.,137304 Metro TPC,Autobiography historical, political military,Biography Autobiography/Personal Memoirs,Biography Autobiography/Political,GENERAL,General Adult,HISTORY / Military / Iraq War (2003-2011),History/Middle East - General,History/Military - Iraq War (2003-2011),History/United States - 21st Century,International Relations - Diplomacy,Iraq,Iraq War, 2003-2011,Middle East - General,Military - Iraq War (2003-2011),Military / Iraq War (2003-2011),Non-Fiction,POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy,Political Science,Politics / Current Events,Politics/International Relations,Politics/Intl Relations,Postwar reconstruction,Postwar reconstruction - Iraq,Postwar reconstruction;Iraq.,Public opinion,Public opinion - Iraq,United States - Relations - Iraq,United States;Relations;Iraq.,iraq; iraq war; baghdad; counterinsurgency; middle eastern history; race relations; war on terrorism; terrorism; terrorists; current affairs; current events; foreign policy; foreign diplomacy; international relations; political science books; politics; international politics; american foreign relations; american foreign policy,Biography Autobiography/Personal Memoirs,Biography Autobiography/Political,HISTORY / Military / Iraq War (2003-2011),History/Middle East - General,History/Military - Iraq War (2003-2011),History/United States - 21st Century,International Relations - Diplomacy,Middle East - General,Military - Iraq War (2003-2011),Military / Iraq War (2003-2011),POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy,Politics / Current Events,Iraq,Iraq War, 2003-2011,Postwar reconstruction,Public opinion,Political Science,Politics/International Relations,Autobiography historical, political military
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