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Peter Van Buren

Peter Van Buren spent a year in Iraq as a State Department Foreign Service Officer serving as Team Leader for two Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). Now in Washington, he writes about Iraq and the Middle East at his blog, We Meant Well. His book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (The American Empire Project, Metropolitan Books), will be published September, 2011.

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News and Features

Giving New Meaning to the Day After 9/11  (Foreign Policy, US Wars and Military Action)

Why saying no to Syria matters (and it's not about Syria).

Peter Van Buren
Welcome to Post-Constitution America (Increased Security After 9-11, Politics, World)

What if your country begins to change and no one notices?

Peter Van Buren
Edward Snowden's Long Flight (Politics, World)

What a whistleblower thinks a fellow whistleblower might have thought.

Peter Van Buren
If the Government Does It, It's 'Legal' (Government, Society, World)

In the name of homeland security, the US has spent seven years and untold dollars silencing one man.

Peter Van Buren
Why the Invasion of Iraq Was the Single Worst Foreign Policy Decision in American History (Foreign Policy, War on Terrorism, Politics)

Ignore the jingoism, from politicians and the press—the tenth anniversary marks a tenth year from hell. 

Peter Van Buren
Our National Torture Policy (Film, US Intelligence, War on Terrorism)

As Zero Dark Thirty reminds us, Americans have yet to face the torture committed on our behalf. 

Peter Van Buren
Six Critical Foreign Policy Questions That Won’t Be Raised in the Presidential Debates (Debates, Foreign Policy, Election 2012)

Don’t expect either Obama or Romney to ask any of these questions.

Peter Van Buren
Protecting Torturers, Prosecuting Whistleblowers (Foreign Policy, Dissent After 9-11, Secrecy in the Bush Administration)

While CIA agents that tortured and killed prisoners go unpunished, whistleblower John Kiriakou faces up to forty-five years in prison. 

Peter Van Buren
How Not to Reconstruct Iraq, Afghanistan—or America (Foreign Policy, Iraqi Reconstruction and Occupation, US Military Presence Abroad)

A guide to disaster at home and abroad.

Peter Van Buren
Leaking War (Barack Obama, War and Peace, Executive Branch)

How Obama’s targeted killings, leaks and the Everything-Is-Classified State have fused.

Peter Van Buren
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