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pp. xxviii, 626, map, ” Foreword / by Louis Begley — Introduction — Beyond the mountains — La parenthèse — The legacy — The mountains — The saddest story — How not to stop a war — The cleansing : a televised genocide — Toward a policy of gesture : the safe areas — Explosion in the marketplace — The great betrayal — To the killing fields — Operation Storm and the cold peace — Coda: Endgame in Kosovo — Marooned in the Cold War — Lost in the forever war — The battlefield in the American mind — Struggles of democracy and empire — How not to win a war — Delusions in Baghdad — Abu Ghraib : hidden in plain sight — A doctrine left behind — We are all torturers now — The real election — The secret way to war — Taking stock of the forever war — The war of the imagination — Voices from the black sites — Into the light? : torture, power, and us — Afterword: The erotic pull of the strange — Coda: Words in a time of war. ” Previous owners name onhalf title page