War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges [85]
Kovach, Bill, 182
Krstović, Dejan, 79
Kuljanin, Jovo, 155
Kundera, Milan, 130
Kurdish rebellion, 2
Kuwait, 25, 38, 144–145, 148
Kuwait City, 85, 90, 149
Lang, Jack, 55
language of war, 8, 148
Larkin, Philip, 157
Lasch, Christopher, 37
Lebanon, 69
Ledra Palace Hotel, 66–67
Lee, Barbara J., 5
Leipzig, 31
LeShan, Lawrence, 21
Levi, Primo, 53, 117
The Lexicon of Terror (Fietlowitz), 134
Liberia, 13, 16, 25
Libya, 2
Life and Fate (Grossman), 135, 136
Life and Nothing But (film), 133
Life in the Tomb (Myrivilis), 31
Light Brigade, 143
Lizdek, Boba, 119
Ljesić, Nikola, 154–156
Lloyd, Anthony, 162
London Observer, 30–31
Lotus, 103
love, war and, 100, 158–185
Lozano, Hernán, 37
Lukić, Milan, 113–114
Luxembourg, Duke of, 19
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 28, 181
Madrid, 6
Mahdi, Sadek, 39
Majdanek, 88
Makic, Mehmet, 108
Malvinas, 43
Man’s Search for Meaning (Frankl), 170
Manchester, William, 174
manhood, heroism and, 84
Manjaca concentration camp, 129
Manojlovic, Srdjan, 155
Márquez, Gabriel García, 16
Mars, 165
Marx, Karl, 56
Matić, Milivoje, 155–156
Matić, Slobodan, 156
McNamara, Robert, 8, 11
meaning, war and, 158–159
Medanovic, Senad, 128, 129
media
death and, 146
myth of war and, 22–23, 143
war and, 20, 142–144
Medić, Dursuma, 110–111
memory, recovery of, 122–141
Menem, Carlos Saúl, 135
Middle East, 35, 77, 161
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare), 45
Mikaya, Kanan, 138
Milanović, Seka, 110
Milošević, Marko, 103
Milošević, Slobodan, 9, 48, 103
Bosnian War and, 21, 55, 60–61
Mladić, Ratko, 58
Mobutu, Joseph-Désiré, 10
Mohammed, Ahmed, 140
Moharb, Ahmed, 95
Montoneros, 134
Morano, Miguel Gil, 170
Morante, Elsa, 89, 91
Morel, Edmund Dene, 147
Mostar, 48, 73
Mount Igman, 1, 121
Mowat, Farley, 28
MPLA. See Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola
Mujaković, Mirnes, 107–109
Mujaković, Rasema, 107–109, 109–110
Murad, Ali, 94
Muslims, 9
Balkans and, 66
Islam and, 47
myth of war and, 20, 26, 32–34
nationalist rhetoric and, 14–15
Serbs and, 129
as victims, 64
Myrivilis, Stratis, 31
myth
nationalism and, 45–50
racism and, 24
of Serbian warrior, 20
of war, 3, 11, 17, 19–42, 134, 141, 143, 173
My War Gone By, I Miss It So (Lloyd), 162
Nagasaki, 28
nationalism
Bosnian War and, 14–15, 48–58
culture and, 62
Dirty War and, 43–45
myth of war and, 45–50
problem with, 58–59
September 11 and, 15
symbols of, 63
war and, 43–61
Native Americans, 47
NATO. See North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Naushahr, 177–178
Nayriah, 145
Nazis, 135
Nestor, 11
New York City, 8, 125
New York Times, 58, 166
New York Times Magazine, 173
Nicaragua, 2, 24, 34–37, 144
Nicosia, 64, 65, 66
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 17, 144
nihilistic relativism, 150
Nina, 103
1984 (Orwell), 9
Nixon-Eckersall, Richard, 65
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 107, 136, 184
“Nuclear Posture Review,” 160
Octavius, 168
odussomai, 12
Odysseus, 12
The Odyssey (Homer), 12
Ohio, 36
Olympus Hotel, 65
Ordinary Men (Browning), 87
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Arendt), 15
Orwell, George, 9–10, 35
Oslo peace agreement, 98
Othello (Shakespeare), 72
Ottoman Empire, 123
Outcast of the Islands (Conrad), 90
Palestine, 9
culture and, 67–70
Israel and, 13, 14, 24, 47, 92–98
uprising in, 4, 154
Pandarus, 25
patriotism
myth of, 141
soldiers and, 14–15
war and, 10, 14–15, 176
Patroclus, 29
Pavelić, Ante, 34
Pavle, Patriarch, 56
Penthesilea, 159
Persian Gulf War, 2, 13
cause of, 142–146, 148–149
impersonal slaughter of, 84–85
Kuwait and, 148
myth of war and, 23, 25
nationalism and, 61
NATO and, 136
Persians, 125
Philistines, 30
Phostoxin, 178
Pinochet, Augusto, 135
pity, 89
Plato, 1
Plaza de Mayo, 59
Pledge of Resistance, 36
Poland, 16, 87
Poniatowa, 88
pool reporters, 142, 143
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), 102
Pretty Villages, Pretty Flames (film), 150–151
Prhovo, 127, 129
Prijedor, 104
Princip, Gavrilo, 77–78
Prinjavor, 107
Pristina, 75
professional soldiership, 90–91
Proust, 91
The Psychology of War