Somalia / Baidoa Fighting - The Factional Self Turns the City Into a Kill Zone for a Phantom of Authority

Event Baseline: Rival forces have launched attacks in Baidoa, Somalia, triggering fighting with federal troops. Casualties are reported.

The factions are competing phantoms of authority. The self attaches to a militia as an extension of its own survival. The city becomes a kill zone. The illusion of a unified state is shattered by clan and faction. Each group believes its victory will bring security. Instead it brings more fragmentation. The fighting is not about resources. It is about the need to dominate. The state itself is just another faction. This is the mechanical failure of thought to see that the enemy is the same self wearing a different costume. The combatants identify with their group so completely that they cannot see their own reflection in the other's eyes. Until the combatants see that their identities are constructed, the killing will continue. There is no winner, only endless fragmentation.