Politics Trumped Competence When Selecting Staff to Rebuild Iraq

[Lemur]

I'm about halfway through the book, and the insurgency is just getting properly started. It's astonishing, in retrospect, the degree to which the administration was at war with itself over what to do once the war had been won. I really can't do it justice with a few posts. Whole working groups flinging memos and reports at each other, the Executive giving nobody any hints as to its intentions until it made sudden, inexplicable pronouncements. A stunningly complete mess.

It's worth the read. Can't recommend it too highly.