Abu Ghraib, 145
Afghanistan, 54, 65–66, 85, 93, 95, 99
Rushdie and, 133
women in, 123–124
aggression, 43, 46–47, 94, 128
Albright, Madeline, 56
Algeria, 67
alliances: Holy Alliance, 29, 31
between left and right, 155–156
allies, 164
American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), 144
“American gulag,” 42
American holocaust, 37
Amerindians, 79
Amnesty International, 42, 147–149, 158–159
antiwar movements, 107, 128, 139, 144, 153, 163
post-Vietnam, 131
solutions for Iraq by, 154–156
support of enemy by, 126–127
apartheid, 100
Arab world, 159–160
Arafat, Yasser, 107
Arbenz, Jacobo, 40, 58, 59, 96, 163
Argentina, 101
arguments against war, 91–106
anti-imperialist perspective on, 101–106
defense of international law as, 93–101
weak, 91–93
Aron, Raymond, 72
Asia, 54
asylum, 76
Australia, 85
Avnery, Uni, 107
barricade effect, 42–52
Bosnia-Herzegovina and, 49–51
socialism and, 46–48
Soviet Union and, 42–46
Begin, Menahem, 107
Belgium, 69
Berman, Paul, 120
Biden, Joseph, 153
Biko, Steve, 91
bin Laden, Osama, 95
Bissett, James
black people, 72–23
Blum, William, 37
Boban, Mate, 49
Boer War, 29
“Al Bolivar” (Latin American television station), 159
Bolivia, 85
bombings, 69.See also weapons
Bosnia-Hezegovina, 49–52
Bossuyt, Mark, 56
Brandt, Willy, 45–46
Brazil, 85
Brecht, Berthold, 87
Bremer, J. Paul, 132
British Guyana, 85
Bulgaria, 85
Burghardt, Jutta, 56
Bush, George W., 44, 71, 73, 98, 125, 152
liberal supporters of, 119–122
loyal opposition and, 32
neither-nor stance and, 132
as radical liberal revolutionary, 138
religion and, 31
cantonization, 49–50
capitalism, 162–163
Cuba and, 85
deaths blamed on, 39
Guatemala and, 58
Carter, James A., 64, 65, 77, 172n3
Castro, Fidel, 47
deaths, 70, 137, 158–159, 178n2
in Fallujah, 144. See also mortality
Chalibi, Ahmed, 133
media and, 162
petitions regarding, 117
putsch against, 114–115
Chechnya, 79
Chirac, Jacques, 87–88, 134, 174n29
civilians, 158–159
Clinton, Hillary R., 153
Cold War, 43, 45–46, 61, 76, 119–120
collateral damages, 158
colonialism, 54, 113, 161, 164–165
deaths blamed on, 40
decolonization and, 35, 99, 115
human rights and, 69
neocolonialism and, 36, 54, 63, 113, 164
Rwanda and, 48
anticommunism and, 109
deaths blamed on, 39
demonization of term, 59
liberal intelligentsia and, 146
moral absolutism and, 133
conservatives, 155
constitutions: European, 162
Iraqi, 147–149
consumption, 90
Contras, 102–104
Cooper, Marc, 62
cooperation, 140
costs of intervention, 35–60
barricade effect, 42–52
direct victims, 37–38
future risks, 52–58
in Guatemala, 58–60
killing hope, 38–42
in Nicaragua, 36–37
crime. See international law
criminal justice, 146–147, 162
Croatia, 51
Cuba, 39–40, 47, 57, 76, 84–85, 97
cultural revolution, 141
currency, 52
Czechoslovakia, 92, 93, 110, 175n1
death. See mortality
death penalty, 113
debate, 32–33
rhetoric of support and, 134–138
Declaration of Human Rights (1948), 72, 76, 83
Declaration of Independence, U.S., 160
armies and, 70–71
of democracy, 59
of Europe, 112–113
self-defense, 125
defense of international law, 93–101
East Timor and, 99
government consent and, 94, 110
international order and, 95–97
non-aligned countries and, 97–98
Democrats, 119
dependence on Third World countries, 52–55, 89, 113
Dershowitz, Alan M., 77
construction of stable states and, 77–79
immigration and, 75–77
money flow and, 80–81
of Third World countries, 38–42
dictators, 37, 39, 47, 59, 95, 97
dominant powers, 162
Dominican Republic, 85
Downing Street memos, 124–126, 127
Drèze, Jean, 39
Dulles, Allen, 59
East Timor, 99
economic rights, 72, 80, 83, 84–85
in Cuba, 84–85
elections, 85, 104, 118, 119, 149
Elshtain, Jean Bethke, 122
against Nicaragua, 102
emigration, 75–77
England, 54. See also Britain
entertainment, 53
as superpower, 112–115, 164–165
Euston Manifesto, 62–63
Fallaci, Oriana, 121
Fallujah, 70, 144–145, 149, 178n5
fanaticism, 60
fascism, 117
anti-fascism and, 107–112
“Islamo-fascism” and, 120–122
First World War, 43, 48, 111–112
foreign aid budgets, 80
foreign policy, 172n3
AFL-CIO and, 144
of dominant governments, 111
of Europe, 113–114
Kerry and, 118
France, 60, 81, 102–103, 110, 114
antiwar movement in, 131
European constitution and, 162
far left in, 133–134
intelligentsia in, 64–65
invasion of Iraq and, 64
torture and, 67
Versailles Treaty and, 112
Vietnam and, 160
freedom: nation-building and, 78–79
freedom fighters, 103
free press, 69–70
free will, 44
Friedman, Thomas L., 42, 121, 138
Garlasco, Mark E., 70
Gaza Strip, 76
genocide, 55–56
Georgia, 85
Versailles Treaty and, 112
Gluckmann, Andreé 122
Good Fight, The (Beinart), 120
cooperation and, 140
Grenada, 100
Guatemala, 40, 52, 58–60, 85, 96
guerrilla forces, 67, 102, 157
Guevara, Che, 96
guilt weapon, 123–138
Afghan women and, 123–124
neither-nor stance and, 128–134
support of enemy and, 126–128
support rhetoric and, 134–138
Halliday, Dennis, 55–56
Hamas, 128
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 60
health, 39, 46, 83, 86, 100, 140
in Iraq, 56
Herman, Edward S., 98
Hitchens, Christopher, 120
“new Hitlers” and, 107, 109–110
Holbrooke, Richard, 67–68, 153–154
human rights, 157–159, 161–162, 172n3
Declaration of Human Rights (1948), 72, 76, 83
International League of Human Rights, 99
Human Rights Commission, 97
Human Rights Watch, 158
human rights defenders, 61–90
development of nations and, 73–83
free press and, 69–70
invasion of Iraq and, 61–64
national sovereignty and, 140
relationship of forces and, 88–90
rights prioritization of, 83–88
Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and, 65–66
Hurricane Katrina, 72–73
antiwar movement and, 126–127
Iraqi constitution and, 149
mass graves and, 142–143
neither-nor stance and, 132
overthrow of, 163
rhetoric of support and, 137–138
ideology: power and, 29–34
ignorance, 59
immigration, 75–77
“Imperialism Watch,” 157–161
independence, 54
indigenous populations, 79, 81
Indochina, 57
indoctrination mechanisms, 33
industrialization, 80–81
information battle, 139
insurrections, 68
internationalism, 115–117
aggression and, 128
civil war justification and, 150
criminal justice and, 146–147, 162
East Timor and, 99
government consent and, 94, 110
Holbrooke and, 154
Hussein and, 138
international order and, 95–97
intervention and, 94–95
Israel and, 162
nation-building and, 78
non-aligned countries and, 97–98
war on terror and, 93
International League of Human Rights, 99
international order, 95–97
interventions, 48–49, 94–95, 125
in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 49–52
low-intensity, 104
moderate, 72
invasions, 136
of Iraq, 61–64, 69–70, 114, 152, 154
Bremer’s policy in, 132
Chalibi and, 133
Chomsky on, 151
colonialism in, 164
constitution of, 147–149
France and, 134
hope for, 161
invasion of, 61–64, 69–70, 114, 152, 154
mass graves, 142–143
mortality and, 70, 137, 158–159
preventive war, 48
torture and, 67
vs. Yugoslavia, 111
Islamo-fascism and, 120–122
Israel, 40, 57, 76–77, 96, 126
Al Jazeera and, 159
neither-nor stance and, 128
Italy, 85
Izetbegovic, Alija, 49–51, 67–68
Jamaica, 85
Al Jazeera (Arab television station), 159–160
Johnstone, Diana, 49
Judt, Tony, 122
justifiability, 43–45
Kagame, Paul, 49
Karadzic, Radovan, 49
Kennan, George, 46
Kerry, John, 117–119
Khrushchev, Nikita, 46
Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 83, 174n25
Kouchner, Bernard, 57, 64, 67–68
labor, 52
Lancet, The (medical journal), 70
Lansing, Robert, 96
Laos, 85
economic and social rights in, 84
neocolonialism in, 163
leaders, 39
of Iraq occupations, 144–145, 147
preventive war against Hitler and, 108–112
Leopold II, king of Belgium, 69
liberalism, 87, 95, 109, 111, 119–122
liberation, 59
lies, 33–34
life expectancy, 39, 46. See also mortality
Lisbon Accord, 50–52
loyal opposition, 32
Mahathir, Mohamed, 83
market, 42
Marx, Karl, 72
Marxism, 87
massacres, 49
mass graves, 142–143
materialism, 44
A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq (Cushman), 61
Mayans, 58
Congo and, 49
European constitution and, 162
Hurricane Katrina and, 72–73
“Imperialism Watch” and, 159
Iraq occupation and, 144–145
propaganda, 69, 129–131, 141–143, 159, 178n5
respectability and, 129
secular priesthood and, 32
military power, 104
Mill, John Stuart, 41
Minchnik, Adam, 121
Mitterrand, Francois, 67
money, 80
Mongolia, 85
Monroe Doctrine, 81
Moynihan, Patrick, 99
Munich Agreement, 110
Nasser, Abdel, 107
national sovereignty, 117, 118–119, 128, 140
nations, 97
natural resources, 54–55, 89–90
neither-nor stance 128–134
neocolonialism, 36, 54, 113, 163, 164
Nepal, 85
Neumann, Michael, 79
neutrality, 158
New Orleans, Louisiana, 151
Nicaragua, 36–37, 60, 85, 102–104, 119
Nixon, Richard M., 64
non-aligned countries, 97–98
non-governmental organizations (NGO), 146
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 92, 110, 132
North-South relations, 140
Nuremburg, 94
objectives of war, 92
occupation of Iraq, 144–145, 147, 151
opposition, loyal, 32
oppression, 47
organizations in rich countries, 157–159
Owen, David, 51
pacifism, 112
Pakistan, 54
Palestine, 69, 76–77, 128, 154
anti-Semitism and, 126
Arab solidarity with, 160
human rights and, 162
Al Jazeera and, 159
Panama, 85
Paraguay, 101
Pascal, Blaise, 34
peace, 95
peace movements, 107, 128, 139, 144, 153, 163
post-Vietnam, 131
solutions for Iraq by, 154–156
“support of enemy” by, 126–127
peace plans, 154
petitions, 117–119
petroleum, 52
Philippines, 85
Pinter, Harold, 37
Cold War and, 45–46
Guatemala and, 52
human rights related, 67
against modernization, 40
nation-building, 64
of systematic domination, 37–38
terrorist attacks and, 44
political rights, 72, 80, 84, 86–87
Portugal, 85
in Guatemala, 59
in Vietnam, 161
ideology and, 29–34
military, 104
stable states and, 77
Bush administration and, 98
incompetent execution of, 121
international, 94
WWII and, 108–112
priesthood, secular, 31, 32, 33
prisons, 67
progressive movements, 66, 105–106, 107, 150
western obstruction of, 39–42
Project for a New American Century, 63
propaganda, 69, 129–131, 141–143, 159, 178n5
protests, 66
antiwar demonstrations and, 163
of human rights violations, 88–90
of Iraq occupation, 145
public health, 39, 57, 84–85. See also health
Afghanistan and, 133
world, 163
public school, 53
Rawnsley, Andrew, 138
reactions to aggression, 45, 46–47
Reagan, Ronald, 45, 83, 100, 103
refugees, 76
relationship of forces, 88–90, 150
respectability, 129
Rhodes, Cecil, 75–76
rich countries, 72, 89, 157–159
rights: economic, 72, 80, 83, 84–85
of Iraqis, 147–149
priorities between types of, 83–88
risks of Third World relations, 52–58
Roberts, Les, 70
Roosevelt, Kermit, 47
Roth, Kenneth, 158
rules of war, 146
Rumsfeld, Donald, 57
Rushdie, Salman, 133
Russel, Bertrand, 29, 45, 48, 96, 177n3
Sabah, Ali, 149
Salisbury, Lord Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 29, 31
Sandinistas, 36, 57, 102–104, 119
Sarajevo, 50
Schleisinger, Arthur, 29–30
school, 53
science, 53
Second World War, 108–112
secular priesthood, 31, 32, 33
Security Council of United Nations, 56, 60, 64, 125
self-defense, 125
Sen, Amartya, 39
September 11, 2001, 93
Arab reactions to, 168n7
Serbia, 80
Sharon, Ariel, 128
Sheehan, Cindy, 71
Slovakia, 85
socialism, 46–48, 85–86, 115, 133–134
social justice movements, 104
social rights, 72, 80, 83, 84–85
social security, 83
solidarity, 115
Somoza, 36
South, global, 141
sovereignty: absolute, 95
national, 117, 118–119, 128, 140
Afghanistan and, 65–66
Cold War policy in, 43
Cuba and, 84
Czechoslovakia and, 92, 93, 110
dominant ideology in, 31
German invasion of (1941), 34
industrialization and, 81
Spanish Republic, 110
Stalin, Josef, 46, 129, 136–137
Stalinism, 43–45
standard of living, 82
Stead, William Thomas, 75–76
Suez Canal, 107
Sullivan, Andrew, 108
support, 124
active vs. passive, 126–128, 135
rhetoric of, 134–138
survival, 87
Swift, Jonathan, 34
Syria, 47
Tallafar, 148
Telesur (Latin American television station), 159
Terror and Liberalism (Berman), 120
terrorism: demonization of term, 59
India and, 93
Iraqi resistance and, 160
Israel and, 77
justification for, 43–45
Third World, 35
cooperation and, 140
debt and, 80
development in, 38–42
international law and, 99
as political entity, 169n9
rhetoric of support and, 134
totalitarian systems, 33
trade, 109
transition, 72
tribunals, 137, 145, 147, 168n2
Truman, Harry S, 60
Tunisia, 87–88
Uganda, 49
Ukraine, 85
United Fruit Company, 59
United Nations (UN), 96
Declaration of Human Rights (1948), 72, 76, 83
East Timor and, 99
Iraq sanctions and, 55–56
non-aligned countries and, 97–98
preventive war and, 110
Security Council of, 56, 60, 64, 125
Srebenica and, 49
UNESCO and, 159
“American gulag” and, 42
American holocaust and, 37
defense budget for, 78, 173n19
dependence on Third World of, 52–55
elections and, 85
Europe and, 112–115
ideology in, 31
immigration and, 76
industrialization and, 81
international order and, 96
Nicaragua and, 36–37
public opinion in, 144
as sovereign nation, 95, 117, 118–119, 128, 140
torture and, 67
victims of wars waged by, 37–38
vs. world public opinion, 163
weapons proliferation and, 98
universalism, 162
Uzbekistan, 101
Venezuela, 104–105, 114–115, 117, 119, 162
vengeance, 45
Versailles Treaty (1919), 43, 112, 170n14
Vickers, Michael, 123–124
Vietnam War, 64, 68, 131, 178n2
altruism and, 29–30
free press and, 69
ideology and, 34
liberal intelligentsia and, 146
neither-nor stance and, 129
torture and, 67
domination and, 55
genocide and, 55–56
massacres and, 49
revolutionary, 47
in Soviet Union, 43. See also casualties
vision of the world, 139–150
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de, 131
Von Sponeck, Hans, 56
war, 79
of aggression, 94
of all against all, 95
Boer War, 29
Cold War, 43, 45–46, 61, 76, 119–120
preventive, 48–49, 61, 94, 98, 108–112, 121
against terror, 71, 93, 119–122
WWII, 108–112. See also Vietnam War
weak arguments, 91–93
of mass destruction, 61, 63, 64, 71, 78, 98, 125
proliferation of, 98
Weisberg, Jacob, 121
West, Kayne, 72–73
Western Left, 66
Will, George, 68
Wilson, Woodrow, 96
World War II, 108–112
Xiaoping, Deng, 77
Yugoslavia, 50–51, 79, 80, 85, 111
Zimmermann, Warren, 50