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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Van Buren, Peter.     Subjects     Postwar reconstruction -- Iraq.     Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Public opinion.     Public opinion -- Iraq.     United States -- Relations -- Iraq.     Iraq -- Relations -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Van Buren, Peter.       by title:      We meant well : how ...         MARC Display

We meant well : how I helped lose the battle for the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people / Peter Van Buren. by Van Buren, Peter. New York : Metropolitan Books, 2011. Description:  x, 269 pages ; 22 cm Edition:  1st ed. Contents:  Help wanted, no experience necessary -- Inhaling : arriving in Iraq -- A home in the desert -- Unexpected blows : day one with my team -- Tribes -- Money and our meth habit -- Caring about trash -- Water and sewage -- Democracy in Iraq : a story of local politics -- Milking the US Government -- A torturous lunch -- One too many mornings -- Haircuts and prostitution -- Laundry -- A break for dinner -- Basketball -- Humanitarian assistance -- The Doura Art Show -- Three colonels -- Some chick event -- Widowed tractors, bees for widows -- Chicken shit -- Midcourse correction -- The embassy lawn, where the grass is always greener -- Economic conference blues -- Spooky dinner -- The day after a day at the embassy -- Soldier talk -- Sex -- General anxiety -- Waiting -- Everyone was looking the other way -- Promises to keep -- Dairy Carey -- 4-H Club comes to Iraq -- Checkpoints -- Seeing the dragon -- Missing him -- What victory looks like -- Exhaling : leaving Iraq. Summary:  From a State Department insider, the first account of our blundering efforts to rebuild Iraq. A shocking and rollicking true-life tale of Americans abroad, and a vividly rendered tale of ineptitude and corruption. 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 cafe;s on bombed-out streets without water or electricity? According to Peter Van Buren, 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 956.7044 Van 2011 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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