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With the new possibilities of not only horizontal but vertical destruction and invasion, a metamorphosis in the game of war took place once again. The ramparts that, in preceding centuries, moved from the limits of the city to the limits of the nation-state moved once again to the limits of emergent land.

Paul Virilio, Bunker Archaeology, 1975

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For a time, the Middle East was held together by Arab nation-states and a belief in Arab nationalisms. Recently Arab nationalisms have withered and Arab nation-states have begun to dissolve from their own decrepitude. Along comes ISIS filling that vacuum and trying to destroy what’s left of Arab nations. ISIS dreams of a caliphate. It erases borders. It destroys order.

David Brooks, “On Hillary Clinton and ISIS,” 2015

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