War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (27 page)

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

Kovačević, Sava,
167

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
(LeShan),
21

Pudin Han,
127

Punjab,
2

Pyle, Ernie,
176–177

Quintilia,
184

quislings,
14

Quixote, Don,
27

racism,
24

Rahman, Murad Abdel,
94

Ramovic, Rifet,
109

rape camps,
104

Rayyan, Nezar,
68–69

Ražnjatović, Zeljko,
27
,
103

Reagan, Ronald,
24

reality, mythic vs. sensory,
21–22

recovery from war,
12
,
129–130
,
133–134
,
162

redemption, apocalypse and,
85

Reed, Dan,
169–170

relativism, nihilistic,
150

religion,
14

Remarque, Erich Maria,
87

Republika Srpska,
58

responsibility, ethics of,
16–17