Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, 68

Clinton, Bill, 34, 96, 99, 119–20, 122–23, 142–43, 181, 194, 210, 213, 215, 220, 235, 248, 255, 275

Clinton v. New York, 258

CNN Airport Channel, 239

Cockburn, Patrick, 31

Cohen, Nick, 137

Cold War, 17, 20, 35, 50, 82, 94, 111, 118, 135, 230, 274–75

Cole, USS, attack on, 123, 125

Coleman, Dan, 121

Coll, Steve, 98, 112–13, 117

collateral damage, 24–33, 121, 225

Colombia, 164–65

Colossus (Ferguson), 80

Comalapa military base (El Salvador), 165

Combatant Status Review Tribunals, 267

“comfort women,” 24, 121

“command responsibility,” 39–40

Commerce Department, 253, 263

Commission on Review of Overseas Military Facility Structure, 137

Commission to Assess United States

      National Security Space Management and Organization (Rumsfeld report of 2001), 213–15, 241

Common Aero Vehicle (CAV), 209

communism, 16, 82, 84, 111, 164

Computer Sciences Corporation, 257

concentration camps, 86

Condor Years, The (Dinges), 108

Congo/Zaire, 3, 19

Congressional Budget Office, 212

Congressional Research Service, 276

Conrad, Joseph, 45, 76, 78

conscience, lack of, 21–22

Constantine, emperor of Rome, 55

Constitutional Convention of 1787, 16. See also U.S. Constitution

consuls, Roman, 61–62, 66

containment, 148, 274

“Contract with America,” 212

Contras. See Iran-Contra; Nicaragua

Contreras, Manuel, 108–9

Convention on the Presence of Foreign

      Forces in the Federal Republic of Germany (1954), 171

Cook, Robin, 14–15, 100

Cooperative Security Locations (CSLs, “lily pads”), 147–48, 153, 155, 164–70

Coors family, 212

Copper Green SAP, 40–41

Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 56

Corona spy satellites, 216

Corriere della Sera (newspaper), 154, 155

corruption, 59, 229–31, 259–68

Council of Europe, 123