humanitarian interventions, 3, 21–22, 71–72, 124, 167, 214, 284
human rights, 72, 170–72, 176, 180, 203, 225
U.S. and foreign military and, 125–26, 132, 133, 136, 137
Hungary, 19
Hussein, Kamel, 302–3
Hussein, Saddam, 11, 101, 126–27, 144, 183, 217, 223–36, 237, 253, 283, 300, 302
Hyundai Engineering and Construction Company, 179
Iberia, 15
Ibn Saud, king of Saudi Arabia, 218
idealism, 47, 51
ideology, 61, 261
“illegal combatants.” See “enemy or illegal combatant”
Illueca, Jorge, 136
impeachment, 306
imperialism (empire)
central political idea of, 257
CIA and, 9–10
civilian casualties and, 28
Cold War and, 32–34
colonization and, 29–30
containment rationale for, 193
continental vs. maritime, 191
decline as result of, 310–12
defined, 28–29
democracy threatened by, 13
disinformation and, 298–303
economic, 5–6, 28, 255–58, 277
extent and roots of American, 1–5
euphemisms, for, 13, 29, 71, 191, 192, 283–84
failed states and, 71
fall of Soviet empire and U.S., 21, 310
fight against communism and, 2–3, 64–65
globalism and, 255–56, 262–77
“humanitarian,” 67, 71–72
idealistic vs. military, 70–72
Iraq war and, 236–37
logic of, and space, 81–83
militarism inseparable from, 30
military bases and, 7–8, 23–27, 37, 151, 152, 187–88, 237–53
Monroe doctrine and, 191
multinational corporations and, 30–31
nineteenth-century, 35–36, 42–43
post-9/11, 3–4, 67–68, 215
recent endorsement of, 67–68
reluctance theme in, 191
sorrows of, post-Iraq war, 284–85
Spanish-American War and, 39–44
superpowers and, during Cold War, 32–35
surrogate soldiers and, 131–49
