Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (67 page)

Islamists (mujahideen),
2
,
4
,
111
–13,
115
–19,
122
,
131
,
152

Israel,
3
,
116
,
140
,
158
,
227
,
236

Italian Christian Democratic Party,
94

Italy,
6
,
48
,
85
,
104
,
123
,
131
–35,
142
–43,
145
,
154
–55

Jackson, Derrick,
29

Jackson, Henry M. “Scoop,”
211

Jackson, Robert H.,
253

Jacobi, Derek,
69

Jamaat-e-lslami,
112
,
132

Jamail, Dahr,
30

Japan,
8
,
157
,
178
,
186
,
198
–201,
207
,
219
,
271
,
274
–75,
279

      military bases in,
142
–43,
145
,
150
,
171
–207

      WW II and,
24
,
39
–40,
73
,
76
,
83
–85,
121
,
199
–200,
279

Japanese Americans,
244

Japanese constitution,
199
,
203

Japanese Defense Agency,
197
–98,
204

Japanese Diet,
181
,
196
,
201

Japanese Liberal Democratic Party,
94
,
181
,
186
,
196
,
205

Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
173
,
185
,
192
–93,
197
–98

Japanese Ministry of Justice,
192
–93

Japanese National Police Agency,
192

Japanese SOFA,
174
,
176
,
178
–207

Japanese Supreme Court,
188

Japan-U.S. Interim Agreement of 2005,
204
–5

Japan-U.S. negotiations

      of 2003,
191
–93

      of 2004–5,
202
–5

Japan-U.S. Security Treaty (1960),
171
–72,
178
–80,
186
,
202
–4,
206

Javits, Jacob,
265

Jay, John,
59

Jefferson, Thomas,
17

Jenkins, Simon,
4

Jerusalem,
58

Jewel in the Crown, The
(Scott),
80

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer,
80

Jin, Lu,
189

John Paul II, Pope,
169

Johnson, Loch K.,
93
,
95
,
102

Johnson, Lyndon B.,
90
,
95
,
245

Johnson County Airport (North Carolina),
128

Johnson Space Center (Texas),
219

Joint Chiefs of Staff,
41
,
116
,
180

Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM),
236

Jonsson, Kjell,
129

Jordan,
9
,
36
,
48
,
94
,
123
–25,
128
,
141

Julius Caesar
(Shakespeare),
56

Justice Department,
36
,
247
,
251
–52,
263
,
267

Kabul, Afghanistan, military base,
124
,
143

Kadena Air Base (Japan),
145
,
173
,
178
–79,
182
–83,
190
,
194

Kaiserslautern (K-town, Germany),
155

Kalecki, Micha,
273

Kalla Fakta
(Cold Facts) (TV program),
128

Kanagawa, Japan,
173
,
202
,
205
,
207

Kandahar, Afghanistan,
124

Karachi Airport,
127

Karakak wedding attack,
31
–32

Karimov, Islam,
152
–53

Karp, Jonathan,
275
–76

Karpinski, Janis L.,
43
,
45

Karzai, Hamid,
32

Kashmir,
87
,
116

Kassebaum, Nancy,
265

Katzenstein, Peter,
157

Kawaguchi, Yoriko,
185
,
190

Kawakami, Hiroyuki,
187

KBR (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root),
7
,
140
,
159
–61

Keith, Damon,
249

Keller, Bill,
255

Kelley, Victor,
186

Kennedy, John F.,
95
–96,
103
,
105
,
216

Kenya,
79
,
85
–87,
121
,
279

Kerry, John,
101

Kessler Effect,
217

Keynes, John Maynard,
271
–72

Keynesianism,
271
–73

Khartoum plant attack,
119

Khomeini, Ayatollah,
2

Khost, Afghanistan,
124

Khostcamp,
118
–19

kidnapping.
See
extraordinary renditions Kikuyu people,
79
,
85
–87

Kin, Okinawa,
189

kinetic kill vehicles,
218

Kipling, Rudyard,
74

Kirkpatrick, Jeane,
75

Kirkuk.Iraq,
162

Kissinger, Henry,
54
–55,
92
,
94
,
96
–97,
104
,
106

Kitty Hawk, USS (aircraft carrier),
202
,
207

Klein, Naomi,
38

Koh, Harold Hongju,
39

Kohat prison (Pakistan),
124

Kohn, Jerome,
21
,
22

Koizumi, Junichiro,
185
,
192
–93,
198
–203,
205
–7

Korea,
76

Korean Air Lines,
234

Korean War,
20
,
145
,
176
,
182
,
253

Kornbluh, Peter,
107
,
108

Kosovo, military base in,
140
,
161

Krieble, Helen,
212

Kurds,
28
,
87

Kuwait,
26
,
28
,
48
,
148
,
150
,
158
–60

Kwajalein Missile Range (Marshall Islands),
222

Kwiatkowski, Karen,
99
,
158

Kyle, Jon,
220

Kyrgyzstan,
6
,
140
,
147
,
151
–52

labor,
81
,
175
,
263
,
272

Labor Department,
263

Lady, Robert Seldon,
131
,
133
–34

Lafontaine, Oskar,
154

Laird, Melvin,
97

laissez-faire,
82
,
84

La Maddalena military base (Sardinia),
154

Lancet
,
28
,
32

Langewiesche, William,
29
–30

Laos,
94
,
126

Latin America,
101
,
147
,
163
–70

Lawless, Richard P.,
192
,
202
,
204

“law of the flag,”
172

Lebanese immigrants,
166
–67

Lebanon,
9
,
63
,
122

Lee, Barbara,
13

Lee, Burton J., Ill,
45

legislative branch,
15
–16,
267
–68

Lenin, Vladimir,
5
,
83

“Lesser Evils” (Ignatieff),
73

Letelier, Orlando,
109

Levi Strauss & Co.,
263

Lewinsky, Monica,
119

Lewis, Jeffrey,
240

Lewis, Jerry,
261

Lexus and the Olive Tree, The
(Friedman),
80

liberal imperialism,
77

Liberia,
148

Library of Korans,
47
,
49

Libya,
123

Lieven, Anatol,
270

Lincoln, Abraham,
244

Lincoln’s Constitution
(Farber),
252

Lindemans, Micha F.,
11

Linder, Sven,
128

Lindh, John Walker,
34
–35

Lindorff, Dave,
35

Lindqvist, Sven,
76
,
79

Livy,
56
–58,
60

Liz Claiborne,
263

lobbyists,
260
–65,
273

Locke, John,
77

Lockheed Martin,
212
–13,
215
,
225
,
227
,
257
,
264

London Times,
4
,
123
,
161
“lone superpower,”
142

Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad, The
(Polk and Schuster),
48

Lord, Lance,
215
,
232

Lord & Taylor,
263

Los Angeles Times
,
15
,
35
,
71
,
263

low Earth orbits (LEO),
216
–19,
237
,
241

Lucas, George,
209

Macedonia,
63

Macke, Richard C.,
180

Madam Secretary
(Albright),
25
–26

Madison, James,
16
,
18
,
20
,
59
,
244
–45

Mahle, Melissa Boyle,
100

Mahuad, Jamil,
166

Maier, Charles S.,
77

Main Operating Bases (MOBs),
145
–46,
148
,
153
–54

Malayan Emergency (1948-60),
4
,
85

Malaysia,
85
,
94
,
236

Mali,
148

Mallowan, Max,
52

Malthus, Thomas Robert,
76

Manas Air Base (Kyrgyzstan),
6
,
147
,
151
,
153

Manhattan Project,
10

Mansfield Park
(Austen),
75

Manta base (Ecuador),
165
–66,
169

Maoris,
75

Mao Zedong,
84
,
252

Marcos, Ferdinand,
19

Margolis, Eric,
87

Mariana Islands,
263

Marine Civil Affairs Bureau,
49

Marine Corps,
17
,
51
–53,
178
,
184
–89,
204

Marine Mammal Protection Act,
149

Mariscal Estigarribia, Paraguay,
169

Marius, Caius,
65
–66

Marquez, Humberto,
49

Marshall, John,
176

Marshall, Joshua Micah,
72

Marshall, P. J.,
79
,
80
,
85

Martin, Kate,
249

Martinez, Mel,
262

Marxism,
81
–83

MasraTora Prison,
130

Massimino, Elisa,
259

Masterpiece Theater
(TV series),
73

Mau Mau Uprising,
85
–87

Mauritania,
148

Mauritius,
94

Maxwell Air Force Base (Alabama),
216

Mayan civilization,
76

McCain, John,
258
–59,
266

McCone, John,
105

McCoy, Alfred W.,
35
,
267

McGaffin, John,
114

McGovern, Ray,
98
–99

McGrory, Daniel,
161

McGuiness, Mary Ellen,
128

McLaughlin, John,
135

McNamara, Robert,
103

Medea (Euripides),
68

media,
17
,
19
,
30
,
33
,
269

Meiji, emperor of Japan,
200

Mein Kamp/(Hitler),
79

Mercosur agreement,
169

Mesopotamia,
36
,
87

Mexico,
83
–84,
164

Mi-24

Hind helicopter,
116
–17

microsatellites,
240

Middle East,
142
–43,
147
,
158
–63,
203
–4

Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, (Romania),
155

militarism,
5
,
88
–89,
137
,
141

      Constitution and,
13
–21

      defined,
19
–20

      military Keynesianism and,
273
–74

      Rome and,
55
,
57
,
59
,
64
,
66
,
70

      space and,
209
–10

military bases

      domestic,
17
,
137
–38,
141
–42,
146
,
149
–50

      number and cost of,
5
–6,
10

      space and,
210

military bases, overseas,
3
,
128
,
257

      costs of,
150
–51,
155
–56