Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

Suharto, 19

Sullivan, Martin, 50–51

Sullivan, Michael, 19

Sulzberger, Arthur, Jr., 255

Sumerian civilization, 47, 51

Sunni Muslims, 87, 111

Sununu, John E., 251

supplementary war-spending bill of 2005, 159

surface-to-air missiles, 226

Suriname, 94

Swaggart, Jimmy, 4

Sweden, 123, 128–31

Swedish Security Police (SAPO), 128–30

Switzerland, 48

“sympathetic consideration” agreement (1996), 181, 185, 191, 193

Syria, 36, 48, 63, 125, 128, 141, 158, 162, 268

Tacitus, 56

Taepodong-2 (rocket), 221

Taft-HartleyAct (1947), 253

Taguba, Antonio, 41–42, 44

Taira, Koji, 171

Taiwan, 3, 19, 143, 198–99

Taji Air Base (Iraq), 161–62

Tajikistan, 152

Taliban, 31, 35–36, 53, 100, 110–11, 116–20, 143

Tallil Air Base (Iraq), 51–52, 162–63

Tanaka, Makiko, 184

tariffs, 82, 83

Tarloff, Erik, 71–72

TarnakFarm, 119

Tarquinius Superbus, king of Etruria, 60

Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 152–53

Tasmanians, 79

taxes, 150, 174, 230–31, 242, 275

Teets, Peter B., 215

Temara, Morocco (prison), 124

Temple Press Ltd., 126

Temptations of a Superpower (Steel), 90

Tenet, George, 92, 98, 100–101, 119–20, 123

Tennessee Valley Authority, 272

terminal phase interception, 221–22, 226–27

term limits, 61

Terror in the Name of God (Stern), 167

terrorism, 5, 14, 19, 37, 108–9, 148–49, 151, 166–70, 231. See also war on terror

Thailand, 36, 94, 124, 148

Thatcher, Margaret, 109

thinking, loss of ability for, 21–24

      Iraq’s cultural treasures and, 45–53

      killing of civilians and, 24–33

      torture and, 33–45