Foreign Policy.com, in a year-end wrap up of its best illustrations, chose one from the excerpt they ran from We Meant Well. The caption reminds us of the fun left behind in Iraq:
State Department veteran Peter Van Buren made a splash this year with his exposé of some of the wasteful and often absurd projects that Uncle Sam had lavished money on in Iraq. One of the most egregious was a nearly $10,000 program to teach Iraqi women the fine art of making French pastries. This watershed moment in the history of public diplomacy was brought memorably to life by illustrator Ward Sutton.
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