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by Oliver Stone


  as neoconservative target, 522, 534–35, 544

  nuclear energy in, 408–9, 410, 602

  offer of cooperation by, 534

  oil in, 190, 194–96, 217, 258–60, 408–9, 410, 602

  U.S. hostages in, 410, 418–20

  Iran-Contra scandal, 431, 455–59, 455, 466, 565

  Iranian Revolution, 409–10, 411, 419

  Iran-Iraq War, 419–20, 439, 455, 457, 463, 567

  Iraq, 217, 338, 408, 419–20, 439, 455, 468, 482, 496, 507, 510, 523, 524, 528, 565, 581, 582

  attempts to tie Al-Qaeda to, 502–3, 519, 520, 532

  British bombing of, 23

  civilian deaths in, 597–98, 599, 600

  coalition government, 598

  cost of war in, 529, 533

  drones in, 574–75

  on global corruption index, 533, 583

  G. W. Bush and, 491, 501–3, 504, 510, 512–34, 544, 573, 595

  Halliburton in, 531

  “Mass Privatizations” proposed for, 530

  Obama and, 549, 551, 569, 572, 574, 582, 583, 590, 591, 594–600, 612

  oil reserves in, 105

  Operation Desert Storm and, 473–81, 481, 520

  prisoners in, 511

  right-wing credentials for U.S. jobs in, 530–31

  staged scenes of jubilation in, 525–26

  state-run oil companies in, 527–28

  troop withdrawal from, 567, 594–95, 597–99, 605, 612, 615

  UN sanctions against, 474–75, 491

  U.S. atrocities in, 388

  U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in, 570

  U.S. led war in, 15, 391, 512, 524–34, 538, 551, 544–45, 549, 562, 569, 572, 574, 582, 583, 590, 591, 594–600, 599, 606, 612

  WMD sought in, 491, 514–21, 538, 573

  Iraqi National Congress (INC), 491, 514

  Iraq Liberation Act, 493

  Ireland, 5, 547

  Irgun, 217, 219

  Iron, Blood, and Profits (Seldes), 66

  “iron curtain,” 191

  Islam:

  radical, 461, 467, 468, 486–88, 500

  rebels in Philippines and, 574

  Shiite, 457, 480, 528, 529, 531, 534, 595, 598

  Sunni, 528, 532–33, 534, 598

  Wahhabi, 461, 488, 600

  Islamic fundamentalism, 413, 415–16, 420, 530, 532

  CIA’s downplaying of, 409

  Islamic militants, 535

  Islamists, 413, 415–16, 486–90

  isolationists, isolationism, 36, 83

  as myth, 38

  World War II and, 83, 94

  Israel, 216–19, 224, 257, 282, 391, 392, 404, 408, 420, 430, 431, 456, 457, 463, 475, 488, 512, 518, 523, 534, 542, 545, 567, 573, 600–603

  neoconservatives and, 518–19

  Italy, 85, 111, 124, 146, 154, 184, 206, 544, 613

  aerial warfare by, 23–24, 25, 157

  Communists in, 188

  election of 1948 in, 215

  Fascist, 50–51, 87

  Mussolini in, 45

  U.S. ICBMs in, 302

  in World War I, 4, 5, 23, 25, 31

  in World War II, 44, 90, 98–99, 105

  It Can’t Happen Here (Lewis), 52

  ITT, 372–73, 376–77

  Iwo Jima, 145, 175

  IWW (Wobblies), 14–16, 15

  Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 196, 383–84, 402, 490

  Jackson-Vanik Amendment, 384

  Jaffe, Greg, 598–99

  Jameson, J. Franklin, 8, 10

  Japan, xi, xvi, xxxi, 4, 38, 69, 184, 236, 240, 266, 287, 305, 392, 402, 474, 477, 544, 605, 606, 609–12

  aerial warfare by, 157

  aggression in China by, 85, 88, 90

  Army Ministry of, 175–76

  atomic bombing of, xiv, 44, 118, 120, 129, 146, 157–80, 252

  casualties of, 87, 138, 145, 168–69, 173

  economy of, 90

  Fukushima nuclear disaster in, 613

  imperialism of, 31–32, 36, 45

  income levels in, 554

  Korean War and, 237–38, 251

  Kwantung Army of, 87

  League of Nations and, 26, 32, 45

  Lucky Dragon incident and, 270–72

  Manchurian seizure of, 45, 87

  militarization of, 83, 87, 100

  nuclear weapons of, 381–82

  Okinawa treaty and U.S. bases in, 380–82

  Pearl Harbor attack by, 82, 98–101, 100, 106, 131

  per capita wealth in, 546

  remilitarization of, 238–39, 381–82

  Soviet involvement in war against, 111, 116, 122, 144

  Soviets and, 188

  Supreme War Council (Big Six) of, 147, 173–75

  surrender sought by, 161–64, 172–76

  “unconditional surrender” and, 145–48, 161–62

  U.S. bombing of, 157–59, 227, 244, 303, 369

  U.S. military bases in, 605, 609

  in war against Russia, 28–29, 116

  in World War II, 44, 90, 98, 105, 111, 122, 137–38, 246, 248, 347, 508

  Japanese, U.S. hatred of, 148–52, 150, 156, 158–59

  Japanese-Americans:

  battalions for, 154

  internment of, 151–57, 153, 155

  Japanese Defense Agency, 382

  Java, 100

  Jefferson, Thomas, xxv, xxvii, 2, 43

  Jerusalem, 217

  Jerusalem Post, 519

  Jews, 87, 88

  as Communists, 219

  extermination of, 78–80, 214, 217

  Israel and, 216–19, 518–19

  in U.S., 687n

  see also anti-Semitism

  Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek), 85, 222–23, 251

  jihadis, 468, 600

  job creation, 555, 557–58, 560

  John Paul II, Pope, 433

  Johnson, Andrew, xvii, xxiv

  Johnson, Chalmers, xvii, 604

  Johnson, David, 234–35

  Johnson, Hiram, 30, 35

  Johnson, Hugh, 50–52, 53, 64, 69

  Johnson, Lyndon, 268, 275, 278, 288, 292, 299, 305, 323, 325–26, 326, 327, 336, 339, 340, 342, 363, 382, 392, 445, 461

  administration of, 418, 523

  Great Society social programs of, 326, 353–54, 353

  and Indonesia, 347–49

  Latin American policy and, 341–47, 372

  reelection not sought by, 341, 342, 358, 365

  Vietnam and, 326–35, 338–41, 343, 346, 353–54, 353, 356, 358, 570, 578

  “Wise Men” of, 341, 342

  Joint Chiefs of Staff, 113, 147, 161, 176, 212–13, 253, 285–86, 291, 292, 294–95, 316, 322, 390, 523, 578

  on atmospheric test ban treaty, 318

  China atomic attack recommended by, 250, 268, 281–82, 295

  on Cuba, 304

  Cuban Missile Crisis and, 307–9, 312–13

  détente opposed by, 399–400

  hydrogen bomb demanded by, 229

  on Iraq, 516, 535

  Joint Intelligence Staff of, 148

  on Korean War, 236, 239–40

  MacArthur fired by, 242

  on Nicaraguan contras, 431

  nuclear death toll estimates of, 287

  SAC Emergency War Plan supported by, 228

  on Vietnam, 305, 315, 328, 330, 333–34, 360, 370

  Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 224

  Jones, James, 567, 585

  Jordan, 219, 420, 488, 601

  civil war in, 282

  J. P. Morgan & Company, 5, 36, 37, 64, 73, 75, 76, 77, 82, 254

  JPMorgan Chase, 551, 560, 590

  Justice Department, U.S., 8, 14, 36, 214, 385, 557, 561, 563–64, 568

  on Iraq, 531

  Radical Division of, 35

  torture authorized by, 510, 511

  Kabul, 459, 488

  Kabul Bank, 584–85

  Kagan, Robert, 490, 527

  Kandahar, 597–98

  Karamessines, Thomas Hercules, 374

 
Karzai, Ahmed Wali, 583, 594

  Karzai, Hamid, 507, 581, 582–85, 588, 591, 592–94

  Karzai, Mahmoud, 584–85

  Kashmir, 468, 535

  Kazakhstan, 253

  KBR, 531

  Kellogg, Brown & Root, 527–28, 530

  Kelly, Edward, 140, 143

  Kemp, Jack, 465, 524

  Kennan, George F., 10, 190, 207, 209–11, 213–15, 220, 222, 229–31, 247, 296, 347, 486, 516

  containment policy of, 211, 211, 438

  Kennecott Copper, 372, 376

  Kennedy, Caroline, 550

  Kennedy, Jacqueline, 325

  Kennedy, John F., 182, 268, 269, 338, 343, 344, 363, 372, 445, 566, 660n

  administration of, 286, 290, 292, 542

  American University commencement address of, 314, 316–18, 317, 447

  anticommunism of, 287, 294

  assassination of, 322–24, 325, 349

  Bay of Pigs and, 291–96, 320, 322–23

  Berlin Crisis and, 298–300

  Cuban Missile Crisis and, 273, 305–13, 311, 322–23

  Cuban opposition of, 303–4

  inauguration of, 290, 291

  Indonesia policy of, 348–49

  missile gap and, 278–79, 302–3

  in 1960 elections, 287–88

  outreach to Khrushchev by, 318–19, 322–23, 380

  Vienna summit with Khrushchev by, 295–97, 297

  Vietnam and, 304–5, 314–16, 323, 326–27, 367, 385

  in wake of Cuban Missile Crisis, 316–22, 550, 586

  Kennedy, Joseph, 63, 269

  Kennedy, Paul, xv, xvi

  Kennedy, Robert F., 288, 295, 303, 308, 310–11, 316, 323, 328, 337, 345, 348–49

  assassination of, 357

  Kennedy, Ted, 550

  Kent State University, 370

  Kentucky, bank holiday in, 47

  Kenya, 416, 490, 549

  Kerry, John, 518, 588, 595–96

  Kessler, Glenn, 500–501

  Keynes, John Maynard, 32, 383

  KGB, 398, 417, 486

  Khalilzad, Zalmay, 461, 489, 490, 685n

  Khan, A. Q., 536, 537

  Khariton, Yuli, 172, 223

  Khe Sanh, 338–39

  Khmer Rouge, 388–89

  Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi, 260, 408, 410, 440, 457, 476

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 285, 446

  Berlin and, 296–99

  Cuban Missile Crisis and, 306, 308, 310–13, 349

  death of, 380

  Eisenhower and, 273–74, 274

  end to Cold War proposed by, 276–77, 314, 316, 317, 318–19, 322, 349

  on German remilitarization, 295–97

  nuclear testing and, 299–300, 313–14

  reaction to J. F. Kennedy’s assassination by, 325

  on Sputnik, 275

  Vienna summit with J. F. Kennedy of, 295–97, 297

  Kiev, 95, 107, 182

  Kimche, David, 456–57

  Kim Il Sung, 236, 391

  Kim Jong Il, 526

  King, Ernest, 105, 176–77

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 335

  Kipling, Rudyard, xxiii, 596–97

  Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 424, 425, 432, 440, 459, 491

  Kissinger, Henry, 355, 356, 371, 384, 403, 410, 491

  basic decency lacking in, 356, 359–60

  Cambodia and, 388, 389

  Chile and, 372–73, 377–79, 379

  in Ford administration, 392, 393, 397, 399–400

  in Indonesia, 395–96

  on 9/11 Commission, 500

  Nobel Peace Prize awarded to, 356, 390

  Vietnam and, 362, 365–66, 370, 385, 386–87, 392, 394

  Kissinger Commission on Central America of 1984, 433

  Knebel, Fletcher, 322–23

  Knights of Labor, xix–xx

  Kohl, Helmut, 470–71

  Konoe, Prince Fumimaro, 145

  Korea, 45, 173, 240, 259, 281, 481, 612

  Korea, North, 235–36, 238–42, 244–46, 245, 248, 250–51, 391, 482, 496, 522, 526, 609

  Korea, South, 196, 235–39, 241–42, 244–46, 250–51, 263, 338, 429, 605, 606, 609

  Korean Air Lines, mistaken Soviet shooting down of, 442

  Korean War, 232, 235–52, 275, 414

  casualties in, 244, 245

  POWs in, 252

  Korry, Edward, 372, 374

  Krauthammer, Charles, xv, 491

  Kremlin, 114, 120, 172, 209, 211, 248, 252, 406, 414, 418

  Kristof, Nicholas, 520, 580–81

  Kristol, William, xv, 490, 503, 526

  Krock, Arthur, 72, 97

  Kubark: Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual, 507–8

  Kubrick, Stanley, 312

  Ku Klux Klan, 1, 53, 141

  Kurdistan, 598

  Kurds, 440, 473, 480

  Kuwait, 105, 420, 474, 475, 476–78, 481, 512, 586, 599

  Halliburton in, 531

  oil in, 190, 474, 477

  Kuznick, Peter, 336

  Ky, Nguyen Cao, 332, 333, 359

  Kyoto Protocol on Global Warming, 496

  Kyushu, 149

  Labor Department, U.S., 546

  labor unions, 233, 546, 555, 556

  Communist-led maritime, 232

  infiltration of, 214

  La Follette, Robert, 7, 12–13, 13, 16, 30, 35, 65

  LaGuardia, Fiorello, 64, 108

  Laird, Melvin, 358, 361–63, 370, 373, 417, 436

  Lake, Anthony, 403, 566

  Lamont, Thomas, 36, 37, 64, 73

  Landay, William, III, 577

  Landon, Alf, 61, 93

  Lang, Patrick, 515

  Laniel, Joseph, 255, 269

  Lansdale, Edward, 246, 269, 304

  Lansing, Robert, 27, 74–75, 253

  Laos, 294, 295, 305, 316, 322, 323, 338, 360, 379, 389, 612

  Lasch, Christopher, xiii

  Lasswell, Harold, 10–11

  Latin America, 68, 124, 139, 194, 201, 224, 304, 307, 308, 341–47, 360, 433, 462, 508, 531, 605, 610

  anti-Americanism in, 603–4

  communism in, 294

  democratic socialism in, 372–73

  drug dealers in, 431

  H. Wallace in, 139

  Reagan’s tour of, 422, 428–29

  revolutions in, 101, 293

  U.S. arming of, 200, 321

  U.S. business interests in, 376–77

  U.S. economic interests in, 38–41

  Latvia, 88, 102, 468, 537

  Lavender Scare, 234–35

  Lawrence, Ernest, 135, 229

  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 284, 289

  Lay, Ken, 490, 493

  League of Nations, 6, 27, 30, 32, 35–36, 37, 44, 45, 55, 83

  Coordination Committee of, 83

  Geneva Protocol of, 25–26

  Soviet Union in, 88

  Leahy, William, 113, 116, 122, 147, 176, 177, 190, 206

  Lebanon, 219, 434, 436, 455, 506, 522, 523, 534

  as future target, 522, 523, 526

  U.S. hostages in, 457

  Ledeen, Michael, 427, 522

  Leffler, Melvyn, 205, 414

  Left, McCarthyism’s decimation of, 233

  LeMay, Curtis, 157–58, 158, 176, 227–28, 229, 241, 246, 250, 275, 295, 299, 303, 322, 356

  Cuban Missile Crisis and, 307–8, 313

  Lemnitzer, Lyman, 292, 295, 297–98, 304

  lend-lease program, 89–90, 93–94, 95, 96–98, 102, 104, 120, 182–84, 189–90

  Lenin, Vladimir Ilych, 4, 9, 26–28, 28, 33, 34, 73, 248, 441

  Leningrad, 95, 97, 157

  Lewis, Sinclair, 52, 60

  lewisite gas, 21, 24

  Libby, I. Lewis “Scooter,” 480, 490, 503, 513, 514, 519–20, 524, 685n

  Libby, Willard, 283, 300

  liberals 60, 552

  Libya, 104, 476, 518, 522, 523, 563, 600, 613

  as future target, 522, 523, 526

  U.S. intervention in, 566, 568–69, 600

>   Lieber, Keir, 539, 541

  Lieberman, Joe, 492, 524, 558–59, 563

  Life, 84, 101, 129, 281

  Lilienthal, David, 63, 196–97, 224, 229

  Lincoln, Abraham, xvii, xxv, 43, 567

  Lindbergh, Charles, 63

  Lippmann, Walter, 16, 43, 56, 69, 207, 211, 289, 338

  Lithuania, 88, 102, 468, 537

  Little Rock, Ark., school desegregation in, 274, 275

  Lloyd George, David, 31, 32, 34

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, xvii–xviii, 262, 265, 328

 

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