Killing Machine (48 page)

“government in box,”
97
,
102

Graham, Lindsey,
xii
,
123–24

Grassley, Charles,
214–15

Greene, Graham,
11–12

green-on-blue threat,
201–2

Guam Doctrine,
179
,
180
,
181

Guantánamo,
33–34
,
90–91
,
194

Hadi, Abdu Rabu Mansour,
222

Hagel, Chuck,
182

hammer-and-anvil approach,
76–77

Haqqani, Badruddin,
219

Haqqani terrorist network,
189

     
ISI connection with,
95–96
,
116
,
149
,
161–62
,
219

     
Pakistan’s Afghanistan interest involving,
152

     
peace negotiations attack by,
116

Harman, Jane,
175

Hart, Gary,
235

Hasan, Nidal,
165–67

Hastings, Michael,
120
,
121
,
122–23

Hayden, Michael,
203–4
,
210

history

     
Bush, George W., administration on Vietnam,
11–12

     
Iraq War justifications from,
3–4
,
5
,
11–12
,
30–31
,
221

     
Obama administration engagement with Middle East,
25–26

     
of UAV targeting of al Qaeda,
vii
,
128–30

     
U.S. postwar response in,
28–29

Hodges, Ben,
100–101
,
102–3

Holbrooke, Richard,
37
,
121
,
123–24
,
150
,
253n7

Holder, Eric,
204–5
,
206–7
,
208
,
215
,
237–38

humanitarian intervention,
244

Hussein, Saddam,
2
,
12
,
83
,
131

ideology

     
of Gates,
27

     
for insurgents,
115

     
Iraq War and U.S. moral,
4–5
,
83–84

     
al Qaeda and U.S. struggle of,
3–4

     
Taliban and,
100–101

     
of terrorism and terrorists,
13–14

imminent threat

     
Constitution and,
205
,
206–7

     
drone strike threshold of,
247–48

     
potential versus,
x
,
197
,
204
,
218

     
significant compared to,
208–9
,
247

     
terrorism and defining,
x
,
197
,
204
,
226
,
242–43
,
247–48

imperialism

     
Gates’ social,
60–61

     
liberal,
243–44

     
life cycle for,
264n40

     
presidential,
183–85

     
pundits on Afghanistan,
71–72

inauguration speech, Bush, George W.,
8–9

independence, U.S. special operations,
110–11

Indyk, Martin,
127

innocents, killing of,
xii

insurgency and insurgent groups, Afghanistan.
See also
al Qaeda
;
Taliban

     
global jihadism impact from victory of,
36
,
38–39

     
ideology for,
115

     
Karzai government links to,
118

     
location of,
48

     
U.S. peace and governance offer to,
37

intelligence services.
See specific topics

international coalition,
47
,
66–67
,
68–69
,
87–88

international law,
138–39
,
203
,
216
.
See also
Koh, Harold Hongju and Koh speech

International Security Assistance Force (ISAF),
89
,
103–4

intimidation,
112
,
132
,
149
,
156

Iran,
189–93

Iraq War.
See also
troop surge
;
withdrawal time frame, Iraq War

     
Afghan War undermined by,
62–63
,
66
,
94

     
Bush, George W., administration justifications and determination for,
vii
,
2–4
,
17
,
30–31
,
131
,
221

     
civil war within,
183

     
Democratic response to,
2
,
7–8
,
10–11

     
drone attack used in,
131–32

     
historical justifications for,
3–4
,
5
,
11–12
,
30–31
,
221

     
nature of,
3

     
new terrorist threat from,
13–14

     
Obama opposition to and criticism of,
1–3
,
10–11
,
12–14
,
21–22
,
175

     
in presidential campaign of 2008,
x
,
10–11
,
12–14

     
regime change justifications for,
2–3
,
17
,
30–31

     
Resolution,
2

     
troop surge from Bush, George W., administration in,
9
,
16–25
,
182–83

     
U.S. moral ideology and,
4–5
,
83–84

     
views of Republicans during 2008 presidential campaign,
10

     
WMDs and,
3
,
11–12

ISAF.
See
International Security Assistance Force

ISI.
See
Pakistani intelligence service

isolationism, American,
90–91

Israel,
193

jihadism,
36

Johnson, Chalmers,
153–54

Johnson, Jeh,
205–6

Johnson, Lyndon,
180
,
221

Jones, James,
62
,
105
,
121
,
167

judicial court, drone program,
212
,
214
,
226
,
227–28

judicial process,
207–8

Junod, Tom,
176–77
,
266n69

just-war doctrine or theory,
87–89
,
127–31
,
213–14

Kandahar

     
COIN change in,
113–14
,
117

     
COIN testing ground in,
94
,
97

     
field manual on,
95

     
Karzai, Ahmed, and,
94–95
,
113

     
Karzai government in,
114

     
Marja campaign and,
93
,
94
,
96
,
113

     
McChrystal role in,
109–10

     
media on,
117
,
119

     
Operation Hamkari in,
113–14

     
Taliban control of,
93–94

Karzai, Ahmed Wali,
94–95
,
113

Karzai, Hamid, government

     
Afghan War undermined by,
152

     
Afghanistan COIN and,
45
,
59

     
Afghanistan election fraud of,
52
,
77
,
105

     
CIA, warlord payments, and,
106
,
107

     
COIN undermined by,
57–58
,
59
,
60
,
75
,
98–99
,
106
,
117

     
corruption of,
55
,
78
,
105

     
Gates meeting with,
77
,
78–79

     
insurgency linked to,
118

     
in Kandahar,
114

     
Marja assault and officials from,
102–3

     
Obama administration relationship with,
52–53
,
77–79
,
100
,
105–6
,
108–10
,
158
,
159

     
peace negotiations for,
98–99
,
109
,
115–16
,
159

     
troop surge for correcting,
60

Kazakhstan,
219–20

Keane, Jack,
49–50

Kerry, John,
8
,
77
,
158–59

Khan, Samar,
173–74

Kilcullen, David,
56
,
64
,
73
,
132–33
,
134

“kill list,”
208
,
225
,
264n48
.
See also
targeting and targeting list

King, Martin Luther, Jr.,
86

Kissinger, Henry,
36
,
84

Klaidman, Daniel,
173

Koh, Harold Hongju and Koh speech

     
drone warfare and international law in,
138–39

     
drone warfare legality from,
136–37
,
138–39

     
on Obama administration and regime change versus continuity,
139

     
on Obama-Clinton doctrine,
140

     
on presidential authority for assassination,
142–43

     
targeting list legal basis from,
143

Kurtz, Stanley,
84–85

law and legal basis

     
assassination compared to targeting,
206–7

     
for assassination of U.S. citizens,
204
,
206–7
,
225

     
for al-Awlaki, Anwar, drone attack,
137
,
171–73
,
209
,
210
,
214
,
225
,
227
,
229
,
270n26

     
for drone warfare,
viii–ix
,
136–37
,
138–42
,
171–73
,
175–76
,
208–9
,
211
,
214
,
215–17
,
219
,
224–30
,
242
,
245

     
international,
138–39
,
203
,
216

     
of 9/11,
140
,
142

     
OLC and AUMF drone warfare,
viii–ix
,
74
,
172–73
,
175
,
208–9
,
210
,
214–17
,
219
,
224–30
,
242
,
245

     
for presidential authority,
143
,
204–7
,
215

     
for targeting list,
143
,
206
,
225