[Pakistan / Afghanistan] - The State Self Bombs the Neighbor to Erase the Phantom It Created

Event Baseline: Pakistani airstrikes killed four civilians in Afghanistan. The strikes targeted alleged militant positions near the border.

The state draws a line and calls it a border. It then bombs across that line to eliminate a threat that is largely its own projection. The enemy is a phantom constructed from tribal and religious thought. Killing civilians is not collateral damage. It is the direct result of a mind that sees only categories, not living bodies.

The observer is the observed. The bomber is the bomb. The state cannot see that its violence breeds the very militancy it claims to fight. This loop of retaliation is the death of meaning. Without dissolving the illusion of separate sovereign states, the region will remain a graveyard. The dead civilians are not victims of a mistake. They are victims of a mind that cannot see itself.