Peter Van Buren’s new book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People was reviewed by The Seattle Post Intelligencer in September.  The reviewer likens We Meant Well to Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, only it’s not fiction.

Author Peter Van Buren, a career State Department Foreign Service Officer (FSO), could have been Heller’s Yossarian, a traveller adrift in a sea of official insanity . . .

Click here to read the full review.