War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (28 page)

rice pills,
178

Richard III
(Shakespeare),
168

Rilke, Rainer Maria,
131

Riyadh,
23

Romans,
10
,
182

Rome,
89
,
103

Roth, Joseph,
85

Rumor of War
(Caputo),
26

Russell, William Howard,
143

Russia,
9
,
34
,
102
,
106–107

Rwanda,
16
,
88

Saigon,
8

Sandinistas,
36–37
,
144

San Salvador,
8

Sanski Most,
104

Sarajevo,
1–3
,
20
,
94
,
121

Saudi Arabia,
142

Saul,
30

Savic, Obrad,
55

Savimbi, Jonas,
24

Sceck, Don,
132

Schork, Kurt,
168–169

Senate,
5

September
11
,
4–5
,
8
,
15
,
44–45

Serbia

Balkans and,
66

Muslims and,
129

myth of war and,
20
,
26
,
32–34

nationalism and,
14–15

victimhood and,
64

World War I and,
48

See also
Bosnian War

Serbian Orthodox Church,
46
,
56

Serbian warrior, myth of,
20

Serbo-Croatian,
32

Šešelj, Vojislav,
27

sex, war and,
99–106
,
163
,
168

shabab
,
4

Shakespeare, William,
25
,
28–30
,
83
,
90
,
91
,
168
,
181–182

Shiite rebellion,
2

Shorish,
138

Sierra Leone,
13
,
16
,
169
,
170

Slavica,
48–49
,
53

Slovenia,
107

The Smoldering Generation
(Asadourian),
123

Smyth Classical Library,
183

Sniper's Alley,
165

Sokolac,
154
,
155

soldiers

patriotism and,
14–15

professional,
90–91

qualities of,
16

Somali,
13

Somoza, Anastasio,
37

Sorak, Rosa and Drago,
50–53

South Africa,
129

South Lebanese Army,
96

Soviet Union.
See
Russia

Spain,
66

Spanish Civil War,
131

Sparta,
183

Special Investigations Commission,
36

Srebrenica,
16–17
,
105
,
126

Sri Lanka,
13
,
16

Stalin, Joseph,
151

state

culture and,
62

displacement and,
111–112

myth of war and,
22
,
23

victimhood and,
64

Steele, Jon,
165

Suchitoto,
40

Sudan,
2
,
13

Sudetic, Chuck,
166

suicide,
171
,
177–180

Sutjeska,
120
,
121

Svevo, Italo,
131

Sweden,
109

Syria,
124
,
149

Taliban,
13
,
24

Tavernier, Bertrand,
133

Temraz, Hyam,
68

terrorism

democracy and,
9
,
148

myth of war and,
22

nuclear,
28

Syria and,
149

war on,
4–5
,
8–9

Thanatos, Eros vs.,
158–185

Thersites,
25

Third Reich,
59

Thucydides,
183

Tito, Josip Broz,
14–15
,
56
,
77
,
120
,
151

Communist Partisans of,
131

myth of war and,
20

Todorov, Tzvetan,
50

Tokyo,
28

Torah,
77

total war.
See
war

Trawniki,
88

A Treatise on Human Nature
(Hume),
19

Trieste,
130–131
,
141

Troilus and Cressida
(Shakespeare),
25
,
26
,
28–30

Trojan War,
28
,
159

Troy,
12

Truth and Reconciliation Commission,
129

Tudjman, Franjo,
21
,
33
,
34
,
69–70

Turjacanin, Zahra,
113

Turkey,
13

Armenian genocide and,
123–126

invasion of Cyprus by,
64–67

Kurdish rebellion and,
2

Ukraine,
16
,
135

Ulysses,
25

United Nations (UN)

Bosnian War and,
1
,
16
,
20
,
32
,
104

Cyprus and,
65
,
66

High Commission for Refugees of,
104
,
155

Israel and,
68

United States

Armenians and,
125

Bosnia and,
16

Bosnian War and,
20

death and,
160

Kosovo and,
16

nationalism and,
61

September 11 and,
44–45

war on terrorism and,
4

University of Belgrade,
58

Ustashe,
14
,
70

Varosha,
65

Vasiljević, Mitar,
113

victimhood,
64

Vietnam,
11
,
17
,
160

language of war and,
8

myth of war and,
21
,
22

nationalism and,
61

Vietnam Veterans Memorial,
11

Vilina Vlas spa,
113

Villani, Mario,
134

violence.
See
killing

Virgil,
26
,
168
,
182
,
183

Virginia Military Institute,
172

Višegrad,
112
,
113

Wall Street Journal
,
173

war

aftermath of,
30–32
,
106
,
117–121
,
164–165

anodyne of,
5

attraction of,
3–10
,
84

casualties of,
12–14

cause and,
142–156

children and,
93–98

crimes of,
129

as crusade,
4–5

culture and,
3
,
62–82

death and,
89
,
132–134
,
144–146
,
157–158
,
165–167

dislocation and,
106–112

drug of,
17
,
25
,
87–88
,
101
,
162–164
,
173

Eros and Thanatos in,
158–185

as false covenant,
161–62

fear and,
83–85

friendship in,
115–116

as god,
10–11

killing and,
8–9
,
21
,
84–88
,
173–177

love and,
100
,
158–185

meaning and,
158–159

media and,
20
,
142–144

memory recovery and,
122–41

modern,
8
,
28
,
106

myth of,
3
,
11
,
17
,
19–42
,
83–86
,
134
,
143
,
173

nationalism and,
43–61

as necrophilia,
165–166

patriotism and,
10
,
14–15
,
176

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

sex and,
99–106
,
163
,
168

suicide and,
177–80

on terrorism,
4–5
,
8–9

warlords

in Bosnia,
30
,
163

displacement and,
111–112

in Somali,
13

The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience
(Ignatieff),
71

The Warriors
(Gray),
101

Waterloo,
31

Weil, Simone,
21
,
30

West,
20
,
27

West Bank,
2
,
4

West Point,
11

Wheeler, John,
11

Widener Library,
183

Widows
(Dorfman),
133

Witness for Peace,
36

Wolves,
113

World War I,
31
,
48
,
85

World War II,
87
,
89
,
131
,
133
,
150

Yale Law School,
11

Yeats, William Butler,
90

Yekhi, Mohammed Masha,
179

Yemen,
2

Yorkshire,
31

Yugoslavia,
15

breakup of,
98–99

Communist Partisans in,
131–132

myth of war and,
20
,
27
,
33

nationalism and,
46

partisan war in,
167

Tito and,
151

Zagreb,
33
,
34

Zagreb University,
70

Zaire,
25

Zenica,
104

Zivotić, Miladin,
57–58

Zohrab Center,
125

Zukić, Dzemo,
113