U.S. Foreign Policy,” International Herald Tribune, June 30, 2001.
43. David Lague, “Gripes over U.S. Grip on Arms Trade,” Far Eastern Economic Review, September 26, 2002; Kim Kwang-tae, “U.S. to Ditch Korea’s Weapons Integration if It Buys Non-U.S. Aircraft in F-X Plan,” Korea Times, July 22, 2001; Hwang Jang-jin, “Boeing F- 15K, with GE Engine, Wins Deal Worth $4.46 Billion,” Korea Now, May 4, 2002, p. 24.
44. Larry Rohter, “Jet Purchase Splits Brazil: New Leader Wants Voice,” New York Times, November 29, 2002.
45. Larry Rohter, “Brazil: U.S. Offers Missiles,” New York Times, May 24, 2002; Raymond Colitt, “Lula to Use Defense Funds in Famine Fight,” Financial Times, January 4–5, 2003.
46. Michelle Ciarrocca, “Post 9/11 Economic Windfalls for Arms Manufacturers,” Foreign Policy in Focus 7:10 (September 2002).
47. Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey, “Neoliberalism, Militarism, and Armed Conflict,” Social Justice 27:4 (Winter 2000), p. 9; Charles M. Sennott, “Arms Deal Criticized as Corporate U.S. Welfare,” Boston Globe, January 14, 2003.
48. Karen Talbot, “The Real Reasons for War in Yugoslavia: Backing Up Globalization with Military Might,” Social Justice 27:? (Winter 2000), p. 100.
49. William Greider, “The End of Empire,” Nation, September 23, 2002.
10: THE SORROWS OF EMPIRE
1. Madeleine Bunting, “Beginning of the End: The U.S. Is Ignoring an Important Lesson from History—That an Empire Cannot Survive on Brute Force Alone,” Guardian, February 3, 2003.
2. “Bush’s United States Military Academy Graduation Speech,” Washington Post, June 2, 2002; and “Full Text: Bush’s National Security Strategy,” New York Times, September 20, 2002.
3. Ewen MacAskill, “Up to 50 States Are on Blacklist, Says Cheney,” Guardian, November 17, 2001; James Doran, “Terror War Must Target 60 Nations, Says Bush,” Times (London), June 3, 2002.
4. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., “Good Foreign Policy a Casualty of War,” Los Angeles Times, March 23, 2003.
5. Cf. William Pfaff, “Al Qaeda vs. the White House,” International Herald Tribune, December 28, 2002; Pfaff, “Religiosity and Foreign Policy: When Power Disdains Realism,” International Herald Tribune, February 3, 2003; Anatol Lieven, “The Push for War,” London Review of Books, October 3, 2002; and Jack Beatty, “In the Name of God,” Atlantic Monthly, March 5, 2003.
6. Stanley Hoffmann, “The High and the Mighty,” American Prospect 13:24 (January 13, 2003).
7. Immanuel Wallerstein, “The Righteous War,” Commentary no. 107, University of Binghamton, February 15, 2003.
8. Letter of John Brady Kiesling, New York Times, February 27, 2003.
9. Tom Barry, “The U.S. Power Complex: What’s New?” Foreign Policy in Focus, Special Report, November 2002, ?. 11.
10. See chapter 6 above; and Madhavee Inamdar, “Global Vigilance in a Global Village: U.S. Expands Its Military Bases,” Progressive Response 6:41 (December 31, 2002).
11. William M. Arkin, “The Best Defense,” Los Angeles Times, July 14, 2002; “War Designed to Test New Weapons: Interview with Vladimir Slipchenko,” Rossiyskaya Gazeta, February 22, 2003, <http://globalresearch.ca/articles/SLI303A.html>.
12. John A. Gentry, “Doomed to Fail: America’s Blind Faith in Military Technology,” Parameters, Winter 2002–03, pp. 88–103. Also see Mike Davis, “Slouching toward Baghdad,” Tomdispatch.com, February 26, 2003. For the computer crash of January 2000, see James Bamford, Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency (New York: Anchor Books, 2002), pp. 451–53.
13. Gentry, “Doomed to Fail,” p. 99.
14. Jason Vest, “The Army’s Empire Skeptics,” Nation, March 3, 2003, pp. 27–30. Also see Thomas E. Ricks and Vernon Loeb, “Unrivaled Military Feels Strains of Unending War,” Washington Post, February 16, 2003.
15. See Ira Chernus, “Shock & Awe: Is Baghdad the Next Hiroshima?” CommonDreams.org, January 27, 2003. On the proposed Anglo-American use of such weapons as lasers that can blind and stun and microwave beams that can heat the water in human skin to the boiling point, see Antony Barnett, “Army’s Secret ‘People Zapper’ Plans,” Observer, November 3, 2002. The United States is sponsoring research on chemical and biological weapons that violates the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and other international treaties. One of the projects is to produce antibiotic- resistant anthrax (Julian Borger, “U.S. Weapons Secrets Exposed,” Guardian, October 29, 2002; and Thomas Fuller, “Microwave Weapons: The Dangers of First Use,” International Herald Tribune, March 17, 2003).
16. Julian Borger, “U.S. Plan for New Nuclear Arsenal,” Guardian, February 19, 2003. Also see Ellen Goodman, “War Is Now the Cover Story for Making More Terror,” Newsday, March 14, 2002; Tad Daley, “America’s Nuclear Hypocrisy,” International Herald Tribune, October 21, 2002; Jonathan Schell, “The Bomb Is Back,” Sojourners Magazine, November-December 2002, pp. 20–25, 58–59; Ira Chernus, “Brandishing Nukes—A Self-Defeating Policy,” CommonDreams.org, February 4, 2003; Dan Stober, “Administration Moves Ahead on Nuclear’Bunker Busters,’” San Jose Mercury News, April 23, 2003; and Noah Shachtman, “Embattled Lab Unveils New Nukes,” Wired, April 23, 2003.
17. Elaine Scarry, “A Nuclear Double Standard,” Boston Globe, November 3, 2002.
