The Sorrows of Empire (52 page)

17
. The legislation is H.R. 4775, 107th Cong., 2nd sess.: “A bill making supplemental appropriations for further recovery from and response to terrorist attacks on the United States for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other purposes.” Also see Expatica News, The Hague, “U.S. Invasion Proposal Shocks MPs,” June 10, 2002, <
http://www.expatica.com/block.gif
>; “Dutch Citizens Up in Arms
over U.S. Congressional Act That Would Protect U.S. Officials or Service Personnel from War Crimes Convictions in The Hague,” National Public Radio,
Morning Edition,
June 14, 2002.

18
. Elizabeth Becker, “On World Court, U.S. Focus Shifts to Shielding Officials,”
New York Times,
September 7, 2002; “U.S. Fears Prosecution of President in World Court,” Reuters, November 15, 2002.

19
. See, e.g., Conn Hallinan, “America’s War Criminals,”
San Francisco Examiner,
July 10, 2001; Marcus Gee, “Is Henry Kissinger a War Criminal?”
Toronto Globe & Mail,
June 11, 2002.

20
. William Burr and Michael L. Evans, eds., “East Timor Revisited: Ford, Kissinger, and the Indonesian Invasion, 1975–1976,” National Security Archive, December 6, 2001, <
http://www.gwu.edu/nsarchivNSAEBB/NSAEBB62/
>. Also see Agence France-Presse, “U.S. Endorsed Indonesia’s East Timor Invasion: Secret Documents,” December 7, 2001; Jim Wolf, Reuters, “U.S. Agreed to Indonesia’s Invasion of E. Timor, Documents Reveal,”
San Diego Union-Tribune,
December 20, 2001.

21
. See, e.g., Jim Mann, “Unilateralism Dead? That’s a Myth Perception,”
Los Angeles Times,
October 24, 2001; and Michael Byers, “The World according to Cheney, Rice, and Rumsfeld,”
London Review of Books,
February 21, 2002.

22
. Nicholas Watt, Richard Norton-Taylor, and Oliver Burkeman, “Camp X-Ray Row Threatens First British Split with U.S.,”
Guardian,
January 21, 2002; Caroline Daniel, “Legitimacy of U.S. Detentions Challenged,”
Financial Times,
December 3, 2002; Neil A. Lewis, “Guantánamo Prisoners Ask for Rights,”
New York Times,
December 3, 2002; Jane Sutton, “A Year Later, Guantánamo Prisoners Still in Limbo,” Reuters, January 10, 2003.

23
. William D. Hartung, “Making the World Safe for Nuclear Weapons,” May 14, 2002, <
www.CommonDreams.org
>; Richard Butler, “Nuclear Testing and National Honor,”
New York Times,
July 13, 2001; and Rebeca E. Johnson, “Who’s for a Nuclear Free-For-All?”
Disarmament Diplomacy,
no. 58 (June 2001).

24
.
International Herald Tribune,
July 14, 2001.

25
. Michael J. Glennon, “How War Left the Law Behind,”
New York Times,
November 21, 2002.

26
. “America as Sparta,”
Boston Globe Online,
March 12, 2002.

27
. Alan W. Bock, “War and Peace and Liberty,”
Orange County Register,
September 16, 2002.

28
. Edward Alden, “A Spaceman in the Pentagon,”
Financial Times,
August 25–26, 2001; and James Dao, “A Low-Key Space Buff,”
New York Times,
August 25, 2001.

29
. See Seumas Milne, “The Innocent Dead in a Coward’s War,”
Guardian,
December 20, 2001; Roberto J. Gonzales, “Ignorance of Casualties Isn’t Bliss,”
San Diego Union-Tribune,
January 4, 2002; Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting,
“NYT
Buries Story of Airstrikes on Afghan Civilians,” January 9, 2002, <
http://www.fair.org/activism/nyt-niazikala.html
>; and Marc Herold, “Counting the Dead,”
Guardian,
August 8, 2002. Also see Herold’s Web sites for the raw data and further analysis: (1) “Dead Afghan Civilians: Disrobing the Non-Counters,” <
http://www.cursor.org/stories/noncounters.htm
>; and (2) “Herold’s Research,” <
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwherold/
>. The United Nations estimates that American bombing killed about 5,000 civilians directly and that up to 20,000 other Afghans died through the disruption of drought relief and the bombing’s other indirect effects. See Jonathan Steele, “Counting the Dead,”
Guardian,
January 29, 2003. The leaked U.N. report is available online at <
http://www.casi.org.uk
>.

30
. Loring Wirbel, “NRO, Space Command, NASA Tout Common Language of ‘Space Supremacy’ at Conference,”
Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space,
April 11, 2002.

31
. Ibid.

32
. On the so-called fourth generation of warfare, i.e., one dominated by space-based warfare and “asymmetric” threats such as terrorism, see Peter J. Boyer, “A Different War: Is the Army Becoming Irrelevant?”
New Yorker,
July 1, 2002, pp. 54–67.

33
. See Joseph Kay, “Bush Administration Renews U.S. Drive to Militarize Space,” July 25, 2001, <
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jul2001/spac-j25_prn.shtml
>; Rob Larson, “Space for Rent: A Free Society
Militarizes Space,” August 23, 2001, <
http://www.indepen.com/2001/Aug09.01/profit.html
>; “The Final Frontier: The U.S. Military’s Drive to Dominate Space,”
Colorado Springs Independent,
December 13, 2001, <
http://www.csindy.com/csindy/2001-12-13/cover.html
>; and Theresa Hitchens, “U.S. Space Policy: Time to Stop and Think,”
Disarmament Diplomacy,
no. 67 (October-November 2002). Also relevant are: Carlton Meyer, “Preparing for War in Space,”
G2mil: The Magazine of Future Warfare,
June 2001, <
http://www.g2mil.com/June2001.htm
>; Charles Aldinger, “U.S. Likely to Put Arms in Space—Air Force Chief,” Reuters, August 1, 2001; Hu Xiaoming, “U.S. Will Probably Deploy Weapons in Outer Space,”
People’s Daily
(Beijing), August 3, 2001; Steve Boggin, “Space—The Final Frontier in a New and Terrifying Arms Race,”
Independent
(London), August 8, 2001; Bill McAllister, “AFA Grad May Lead Era of Space Warriors,”
Denver Post,
August 12, 2001; “U.S. Missile Experts Meet to Save the Nation—and Make a Few Bucks,”
Space Daily,
August 26, 2001, <
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/010826123032.51ofx47q.html
>.

34
. For details on the British death camps and statistics on the number who died, see Paul Harris, “’Spin’ on Boer Atrocities,”
Observer,
December 9, 2001. Also see BBC News, “Imperialism in the Dock—The Boer War,” November 10,1999.

35
. Quoted by Kay, “Bush Administration.”

36
. See Jason Vest, “The Dubious Genius of Andrew Marshall,”
American Prospect,
February 15, 2001; and Nicholas Lemann, “Dreaming about War,”
New Yorker,
July 16, 2001, pp. 32–38.

37
. Nora K. Wallace, “Without Space, We’re Back to World War II,”
Santa Barbara News-Press,
April 23, 2003, <
http://globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/030423-space-war01.htm
>.

38
. Gail Kaufman and Gopal Ratnam,
Space News,
June 13, 2001. For other reports on attempts to cover up the BMD’s failings, see William J. Broad, “Missile Contractor Doctored Tests, Ex-Employee Charges,”
New York Times,
March 7, 2000; Broad, “Pentagon Classifies a Letter Critical of Antimissile Plan,”
New York Times,
May 20, 2000; Broad, “M.I.T. Studies Accusations of Lies and Cover-Up of Serious Flaws in
Antimissile System,”
New York Times,
January 2, 2003; Broad, “U.S. Seeks Dismissal of Suit by Critic of Missile Defense,”
New York Times,
February 3, 2003; Arianna Huffington, “Blowing the Whistle on Bad Science,”
AlterNet.org,
March 14, 2002; Bradley Graham, “Secrecy on Missile Defense Grows,”
Washington Post,
June 12, 2002; and Graham,
Hit to Kill: The New Battle over Shielding America from Missile Attack
(New York: Public Affairs, 2001).

39
. Lawrence F. Kaplan,
New Republic,
March 12, 2001. Kaplan is a senior editor at the
New Republic.
He is coauthor with William Kristol of the neoconservative book
The War over Iraq
(San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003).

40
. Jim Walsh, “The Two Faces of Bush on Defense,”
Los Angeles Times,
May 1, 2001.

41
. Bill Keller, “Missile Defense: The Untold Story,”
New York Times,
December 29, 2001.

42
. U.S. Department of Defense,
Report of the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States,
July 15, 1998. For implementation of this report, see Donald H. Rumsfeld,
2001 Quadrennial Defense Review,
June 22, 2001, “classified contents removed,” p. 13.

43
. Paul Wolfowitz, “Remembering the Future,”
National Interest,
Spring 2000, p. 36. For the 1992 background, see David Armstrong, “Dick Cheney’s Song of America: Drafting a Plan for Global Dominance,”
Harper’s,
October 2002, pp. 76–83; and Tom Berry and Jim Lobe, “The Men Who Stole the Show,”
Foreign Policy in Focus,
Special Report, October 2002.

44
. Quoted by Quentin Peel, “Face It, The Cold War Is Over,”
Financial Times,
August 20, 2001.

45
. See Wen-ho Lee (with Helen Zia),
My Country versus Me
(New York: Hyperion, 2001); and Dan Stober and Ian Hoffman,
A Convenient Spy: Wen-ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001).

46
. William Arkin and Robert Windrem, “The U.S.-China Information War,” August 20, 2001, <
http://www.msnbc.com/news/607031.asp?cp1=1
>.

47
.
Asahi Shimbun
(Tokyo), April 25, 2003 (in Japanese).

48
. Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment),
Base Structure Report (A Summary of DoD’s Real Property Inventory)
(Washington: Department of Defense, 2002), s.v. “South Korea.”

49
. Bruce Cumings,
Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History
(New York: Norton, 1997), p. 153. Also see Doug Bandow,
Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World
(Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1996).

50
. Jim Lea, “S. Korean Protesters Hurl Rocks, Eggs at Camp Casey,”
Stars & Stripes,
July 21, 2002; K. T. Kim, “Trial of U.S. Soldiers to Open to Media Only,”
Korea Times,
November 8, 2002; James Brooke, “First of 2 G.I.’s on Trial in Deaths of 2 Korean Girls Is Acquitted,”
New York Times,
November 21, 2002; Don Kirk, “2nd U.S. Sergeant Is Cleared in the Death of 2 Korean Girls,”
New York Times,
November 23, 2002; BBC News, “S. Koreans Stage Huge Anti-U.S. Rally,” December 14, 2002; Robert Fouser, “Putting Alliance to a ‘Democracy Test,’”
Korea Now,
December 14, 2002; Tim Shorrock, “Ron’s Election Victory and the Widening Gap between the U.S. and South Korea,”
Foreign Policy in Focus,
January 7, 2003; Jaewoo Choo, “Vigils in Korea: U.S. Alliances on Trial,”
Asia Times,
January 7, 2003; and Peter S. Goodman and Joohee Cho, “Anti-U.S. Sentiment Deepens in S. Korea,”
Washington Post,
January 9, 2003.

51
. Barbara Demick, “A Less Intrusive Presence for Troops in South Korea,”
Los Angeles Times,
April 2, 2003.

52
. Walter Pincus, “CIA Head Predicts Nuclear Race: Small Nations Pursuing Arms,”
Washington Post,
February 12, 2003.

1
. Brian Kennedy, “Uncle Sam Wants You to Play This Game,”
New York Times,
July 11, 2002; Steve Osunsami, “Simulated Sniping: U.S. Army Recruits Teens with Internet Game,” ABC News, October 31, 2002; and Steve Rubenstein, “Military Recruits Motivated by Promises of Perks, Not Patriotism,”
San Francisco Chronicle,
December 13, 2002.

2
. See the following official Web sites: <
www.nhra.com
> and <
www.goarmy.com
>. Also see Chris Grenz, “Dragster an Army of One,”
Topeka Capital-Journal,
May 24, 2001; Jeff Wolf, “Army Mixes Recruiting, Racing,”
Las Vegas Review-Journal,
April 8, 2002. For a photograph of “The Sarge,” see
Popular Mechanics,
2002, <
http:/popularmechanics.com/automotive/motor_sports/2002/2/go_army/index.p-html
>.