| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 269 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-266). |
| Summary |
In this chronicle of a year in Iraq, Van Buren describes how he led a State Department Provincial Reconstruction Team on a quixotic crusade to rebuild a society they knew next to nothing about. With laserlike irony, he details the pointless projects, the widespread bureaucratic fumbling and lack of strategic direction, the overwhelmed and overburdened soldiers, and the obliviousness of administrators isolated in the world's largest embassy, who fail to realize that you can't rebuild a country without first picking up the trash. |
| Subject |
Postwar reconstruction -- Iraq.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Public opinion.
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United States -- Relations -- Iraq.
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Iraq -- Relations -- United States.
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Public opinion -- Iraq.
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| ISBN |
9780805094367: $25.00 |
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0805094369 |
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