Table of Contents
Foreword Louis Begley xi
Introduction xvii
I Beyond the Mountains 1
La Parenthèse 3
The Legacy 47
The Mountains 84
II The Saddest Story 123
How Not to Stop a War 125
The Cleansing: A Televised Genocide 145
Toward a Policy of Gesture: The Safe Areas 172
Explosion in the Marketplace 203
The Great Betrayal 231
To the Killing Fields 265
Operation Storm and the Cold Peace 301
Coda: Endgame in Kosovo 317
III Marooned in the Cold War 331
IV Lost in the Forever War 363
The Battlefield in the American Mind 365
Struggles of Democracy and Empire 369
How Not to Win a War 372
Delusions in Baghdad 379
Abu Ghraib: Hidden in Plain Sight 392
A Doctrine Left Behind 412
We Are All Torturers Now 416
The Real Election 420
The Secret Way to War 434
Taking Stock of the Forever War 445
The War of the Imagination 466
Voices from the Black Sites 493
Into the Light? Torture, Power, and Us 521
Afterword: The Erotic Pull of the Strange 545
Coda: Words in a Time of War 551
Acknowledgments 565
Notes 567
Selected Bibliography 595
Index 605