[Pakistan / Afghanistan] - The National Self Bombs Across the Border to Feed a Phantom of Secure Frontier, Killing Women and Children

Event Baseline: Pakistan said 22 fighters were killed in air attacks on Afghanistan's Kunar and Helmand provinces. Kabul said the strikes killed nine women and children.

The nation-state is a glorified tribe, and the border is a line drawn by the same thought that divides the human from the human. Pakistan bombs across that line because it believes the enemy is an external object, not a mirror of its own disorder. The bodies of women and children are collateral damage in a war over a phantom of security. This is the purest expression of the illusion of the separate self.

Both governments claim the right to kill to protect their own identity. But each identity is just a collection of beliefs, flags, and historical grievances. The bombing does not bring security; it breeds the next generation of fighters. The mind that cannot see the Afghan child as its own child will never know peace. Intelligence is the immediate perception that the border is a fiction, and that security is not found in killing the other but in dissolving the self that demands one.