Reddit reviews We Meant Well (American Empire Project)
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Reddit reviews We Meant Well (American Empire Project)We found 5 Reddit comments about We Meant Well (American Empire Project). Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
This is a good article, and the guy who wrote it also wrote a great book about the Iraqi reconstruction.
He was a career State Department employee, and Iraq was his last assignment. He goes into extensive detail explaining what a complete and total mess the reconstruction was. I highly recommend it.
https://www.amazon.com/We-Meant-Well-American-Project/dp/0805096817
They generally are the ones who have the potential to make the most sense: they’ve experienced the taxpayer-funded bullshit that actually goes on behind the opaque curtain of “support our troops!! More money for the troops! And if you dare ask where that money ultimately ends up, you hate the troops and America and Jesus!!!”
Anyone want an eye-opening read on the insanity of our adventures abroad, I highly recommend “We Meant Well,” by Peter Van Buren https://www.amazon.com/We-Meant-Well-American-Project/dp/0805096817 ; think a nonfiction Catch-22 in 2011 Iraq
The Unthinkable: Who Survives when Disaster Strikes by Amanda Ripley made me understand why people don't behave rationally in emergency situations
Edit to add: We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People by Peter Van Buren. The author, a veteran Foreign Service worker, chronicles his time in Iraq. Explains why war costs so much, and why, at least in Iraq, is so I seemingly ineffective.
Book suggestion:
https://www.amazon.com/We-Meant-Well-American-Project/dp/0805096817
We Meant Well by Peter Van Buren