![One book that I heard was circulating the Green Zone was "Bureaucracy Does Its Thing" by Robert Komer , who worked for President [Lindon] Johnson in Saigon. This book is about the inevitably of screwing up when a country takes on a war with so little understanding of the country they are fighting.](/assets/img/quote-photos/one-book-that-i-heard-was-circulating-the-green-zone-was-bureaucracy-does-its-th.jpg)
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