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Is this a War? Resetting the relationship between The State and The Citizen Unbekoming I’ve been wondering for quite some time about whether we are in a War and the resolution of my thoughts on the subject has recently improved. Oddly enough, I have some standing on the subject. I lived in Iraq between 1981 to 1991, a period that covered almost all of the Iraq/Iran War and all of the Gulf War, the original, not the sequels. It was an old school type of war, with two parties fighting over territory and trying to redraw a border. A lot of people died over 8 years and the border stayed the same. But weapons were sold, and internal power was consolidated. That’s really what war is about, territory. You have something that I want, and I will fight you for it. So, if this is a war, who are the warring parties and what is the fight over? The war is between “the state” and “the citizen”. The latter is YOU and ME and it’s easy enough to understand (sort of), but THE STATE is not straightforward...

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