War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (26 page)

Britain,
44
,
147

Browning, Christopher,
87–88

Buenos Aries,
59

Burundi, casualties of war in,
13

Bush, George W.,
4
,
160

Buvac, Ratko,
129

Cairo,
148

California,
5

Caligula,
103

Calvus,
184

Cambodia,
126

Camino Real Hotel,
8

Canada,
49

Canetti, Elias,
112
,
145

Caputo, Philip,
26

Carlos, Commandante,
131

Carlotta,
101–102

Casa Rosada,
59

Cassandra,
25

Catholic Church,
46

Catullus,
170
,
183
,
184

cause

of Bosnian War,
149–156

language of,
148

myth of war and,
146–147

of Persian Gulf War,
142–146
,
148–149

war and,
142–156

Ceauşescu, Nicolae,
2

Central America,
13
,
24
,
35
,
161

Chechens,
9

Chechnya,
13
,
16
,
170

“Chetniks,”
14
,
153

children, war and,
93–98

Chile,
44
,
141

Christianity,
147–148

Chronicle of a Death Foretold
(Márquez),
16

Cicero,
183

Civilization and Its Discontents
(Freud),
158

Clark, Wesley K.,
16

Clerides, Glafkos,
66

Clinton, Bill,
20
,
34

Cold War,
15
,
131

Coleman, Kathleen,
183

Colombia,
2
,
13

communism,
27

Communist Partisans,
131–132

Congo,
105
,
163

Congress,
5

Congressional Human Rights Caucus,
145

Conrad, Joseph,
90

Contras,
24
,
36

Conversation with Goya: Signs, Bridges
(Andrić),
122

Coriolanus
(Shakespeare),
83
,
168

Ćosić, Dobrica,
48

Costa Rica,
6

Crimean War,
22

Croatia,
14

Catholic Church in,
46

Education Ministry in,
33

gangsters and,
27–28

myth of war and,
20
,
21
,
26
,
32–34

nationalism and,
70–71

victimhood and,
64

See also
Bosnian War

Cromwell, Oliver,
19

Crvena Zemlja,
127

Cuba,
35
,
102

culture

Bosnian War and,
62–63

destruction of,
62–82

memory and,
123

nationalism and,
62

state and,
62

war and,
3
,
62–82

The Culture of Narcissism
(Lasch),
37

Cura, Fatima,
109

Cyclops,
12

Cyprus, Turkish invasion of,
64–67

Czechoslovakia,
57

Damascus,
149

Dante,
1

Davor,
107

Dayton peace agreement (1995),
151–152

death

abuse of,
89
,
137

anonymous,
135

media and,
146

U.S. and,
160

war and,
89
,
144–146
,
157–158
,
165–167

democracy, terrorism and,
9
,
148

Denktash, Rauf,
67

desaparecido
,
135

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