Exceptional (48 page)

“two-war” strategy,
213
–14,
215
,
234

Ukraine

and restoring American power,
233
,
250
,
251

Russia and,
202
–3,
204
,
212
,
220
,
233
,
250
,
251

U.S. military assistance to,
250

United Airlines Flight
93
,
100
,
119

United Arab Emirates: rebuilding of U.S. alliance with,
239

United Kingdom

Budapest Memorandums and,
250

nuclear program in,
172

and Russia,
203

See also
Great Britain

United Nations (UN)

Charter of,
74

Iran and,
176
,
177
,
183
,
184
,
185
,
187
,
189
,
244

Iraq and,
93
,
110
,
113
,
116

and Israel settlements on West Bank,
78

and Karzai as leader in Afghanistan,
103

Korean War and,
54
,
55

and Kuwait liberation (1990),
78
–79

and Obama's call for a coequal community of nations,
128

seating of China at,
54

and World War II,
27

United States

abdication of power by,
128

as Arsenal of Democracy,
2
,
10
,
19
,
251
,
258

credibility of,
164
,
186
,
198
,
203
–4,
213
,
219
,
252

decline in influence of,
208
,
224
–25

dependency of other nations on,
2

fundamental purpose of,
57
–58

as global financial power,
176
–77

as “last best hope of earth,”
257
–59

moral differences between Iran and,
193

moral equivalence between Soviet Union and,
83

Obama as apologizing for,
128

resentment toward,
124

and restoring American power,
231
–55

role as world power of,
91
,
225
,
226
–27,
232

security objective for,
242

threats facing,
212
–13,
215
,
220
,
232
–33,
234
,
235
,
242
–43,
255
,
258

Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
74

University of Notre Dame: Carter strategic arms speech at,
77

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission,
221
–22

U.S. Institute of Peace: Clinton (Hillary) speech at,
200
–201

USA Freedom Act,
240
,
255

USS
Cole
: bombing of,
99

USS
Theodore Roosevelt
,
211

values, American: and enhanced interrogation methods,
131
–35

Vance, Cyrus,
77

Vienna, Austria: Khrushchev-Kennedy summit in,
63
–64

Vietnam War,
68
–70,
71

Walesa, Lech,
82
,
88

Wall Street Journal
: Iran-U.S. nuclear agreement story in,
244

Warsaw Pact,
75
,
250

Washington, George,
4
,
11

Washington Post

and China as threat to U.S.,
223

Iraq War story in,
110

Single Integrated Operational Plan story in,
76
–77

Waszczykowski, Witold,
199

Watergate,
72

Watson, Edwin “Pa,”
14

weapons of mass destruction

Iraq and,
110
–11,
113
–16,
219

terrorism and,
101

See also type of weapon

Webster, Daniel,
1

Weekly Standard
: Iran story in,
184

Weigel, George,
82

Welsh, Mark,
210

West Bank: Israeli settlements on,
78

West Point: Obama speech at,
149
–50,
151

Western Europe

Soviet Union as threat to,
55
,
170

See also specific nation

Westmoreland, William,
69

Winant, John,
38

Winton, Joel,
184

Wisser, Gerhard,
192

Wojtyla, Karol.
See
John Paul II (pope)

Woods, Tyrone,
156

World Trade Center (New York City)

9/11 Memorial & Museum at,
106

1993 bombing at,
93
–94,
101

rebuilding at,
156

See also
September 11, 2001

World War I,
11
,
12

World War II

allied summits in,
40

allied war strategy in,
22

atomic bombs in,
5
,
33
–35,
36
,
37
–38,
129

and building and equipping U.S. Army,
13
–16

capitalism as cause of,
45

casualties in,
36

D-Day in,
6
,
26
–30

Dunkirk in,
16
–17

European Theater in,
6
,
24
–25,
26
–30

as example of American exceptionalism,
1
,
41

and expansion of Nazi Germany,
11
–12,
13

and German declaration of war against U.S.,
21

“Hitler First” policy in,
24

importance of safeguarding history of,
5

influence on Truman and Kennedy of,
231
–32

isolationism in,
11
,
19
–22

Japanese surrender in,
37
–38

and Lend-Lease program,
18
–20,
21

mobilization for,
9
–11,
14
,
15
,
18
,
28

and North Africa campaign,
25
,
27
,
39

Pacific Theater in,
5
,
21
,
22
,
23
–24,
25
–26,
34
–37

Pearl Harbor in,
21
,
22
,
29

role of U.S. in,
16
–17,
19
–26,
38
–40

and Roosevelt's death,
32
,
33

size of German forces in,
15

size of U.S. Army in,
12
–13

Truman's views about,
32
–33

U.S. aid during,
17
–20,
21
,
226
–27

and U.S. as “last best hope of earth,”
258

U.S. leadership during,
2
,
17
–18,
38
–41,
231
–32

See also specific person or nation

Yazov, Dmitri,
92

Yeltsin, Boris,
88

Yemen,
168
,
212
,
233
,
245

Zarate, Juan,
176
,
178

Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-,
111
,
112

Zawahiri, Ayman al-,
113
,
128
,
158

Zebari, Babakir,
143

Zubaydah, Abu,
107
,
108

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