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War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges [84]

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Desdemona, 72

Dhahran, 23, 142

Dido, 168

Dirty War, 43–45, 134

Dispatches (Herr), 146

displacement, 106–112

Djilas, Milovan, 57, 63, 167

Doboj, 155

Dobrinja, 119–120

Dorfman, Ariel, 133

Dragan, Captain, 27

Dresden, 28

Drina River, 112

drug of war, 17, 25, 87–88, 101, 162–164, 173

Dulcinea, 27

Durant, Will, 10

Duras, Marguerite, 60

East Timor, 170

Egypt, 77

ekpyrosis, 166

Eliot, T. S., 90

El Salvador, 2, 133, 144, 150

civil war in, 86

death squads in, 8

exhumations in, 126

killing of children in, 94

myth of war and, 25, 35, 39–42

revolutionary movements in, 35, 39–42

war in, 5–6, 164

willingness to kill and, 88

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus, 67

“Epitaph to a Tyrant” (Auden), 90

Eris, 100

Eritrea, 13

Eros, 101

Thanatos vs., 158–185

Ethiopia, 13

Euripides, 28

Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps (Todorov), 48–58

Faid, Neamon Mohammed, 97

Falkland Islands, 43, 59

Falstaff, 38–39

Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), 40

fear, war and, 83–85

Fejzić, Fadil, 50, 52–53

Fietlowitz, Marguerite, 134

FMLN. See Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front

foibe, 132

Fortinbras, Prince, 79

France, 3, 10, 55, 155

Frankl, Victor, 170–171

Franz Ferdinand, 77, 80

Free Belgrade University, 58

Freedman, James O., 182

“freedom fighters,” 24

Freud, Sigmund, 32, 158, 162

friendship in war, 115–116

galabias, 93

Gani Tal, 93

Gashi, Shukrije, 184

Gaza, 2–4, 35, 93–98

Germany, 16, 109, 150, 155

Gharib, Ramazan, 179

Glavaš, Branimir, 27

god, war as, 10–11

Goodbye Darkness (Manchester), 173–175

Goražde, 50

Grand Illusion (film), 85

Grant, Ulysses S., 16

Gray, J. Glenn, 101, 115, 116, 164–165, 176

Grbavica, 153

Greece, 16, 133

Greeks, 166, 182

Armenians and, 125

war and, 10, 26

Green Line, 65, 66–67

Grossman, Vasily, 135–136

Grujić, Branko, 76

Guatemala, 2

casualties of war in, 13

killing of children in, 94

rebels in, 144

Gulf War. See Persian Gulf War

Ha’aretz, 165

The Hague, 141

Hamlet (Shakespeare), 78–79

Hanoi, 8

happiness, meaning and, 159

Harvard Divinty School, 147

“Harvest Festival,” 88

Hassan, Pershan, 137–138

Hector, 29

Helen, 26

Henry V (Shakespeare), 25, 26, 38–39

Hephaestos, 100

heroism, myth of war and, 83–86

Herr, Michael, 146, 162–163

High Commission for Refugees, 104, 155

Hiroshima, 28

History: A Novel (Morante), 89

Hitler, Adolf, 126, 151

Holocaust, 70, 77, 92

Homer, 26, 29

House of Dolls (Ka’Tzetnik), 92

Human Rights Watch, 138

Hume, David, 19

Hungary, 16

Hussein, Saddam, 13, 95, 136–137, 149

Ie Shima, 176

Ignatieff, Michael, 71

The Iliad (Homer), 11, 12, 90, 115–116

Impasses of Historical Reality (Tudjman), 70

innocents, violence against, 8

intifada, 98

Iran, 2, 10, 177–178

Islamic revolution (1979), 177

Iraq, 77, 127, 144–145

killing sites in, 136–141

Kurdish rebellion and, 2

language of war and, 8

willingness to kill and, 88

Iraqi Republican Guard, 2

Ireland, 13, 66

Islam, 47, 147–148

Islamic fundamentalists, 5

Islamic University, 68

Ismić, Admira, 169

Israel, 77

alliances with, 8

Palestine and, 4, 13, 14, 24, 47, 92–98

United Nations and, 68

war of independence in, 47

Istrian Peninsula, 131

Italy, 131–132

Jerusalem, 4

Jews, 70

Egypt and, 77

Israeli war of indepence and, 47

massacre of, 135

World War II and, 87–88

jihad, 4

Jordan, 77

Joyce, James, 131

Judaism, 147–148

Julian the Turk, 134–135

Jünger, Ernst, 85

Kalinin, 126

Kalowa Hill, 137

Kapušciński, Ryszard, 101, 102

Karadžić, Radovan, 50, 58, 69

Karisik, Milenko, 152

Katić, Milorad, 153

Katyn Forest, 126

Ka’Tzetnik, 92

Kerrey, Bob, 172–173

KGB, 136

Khafji, 23

Khan Younis refugee camp, 93–98

Khartoum, 39

Kigali, 16–17

killing

in Bosnian War, 9

impersonal, 84–87

war and, 173–177

King Lear (Shakespeare), 28, 181–182

Kiš, Danilo, 45, 63

kleos, 12

Kljuć, 107, 127

Kneževic, Zeljko, 156

Kopaci, 52

Korea, 21

Kosovo, 2, 13, 75

myth of war and, 25

NATO and, 184

sex and, 105–106

U.S. intervention in, 16

willingness to kill and, 88

Kosovo Liberation Army, 105

Kovać, Huso, 120–121

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