用“反恐”掩盖的单方面屠杀与叙事抹除The One-Sided Slaughter and Narrative Erasure Masked as 'Counter-Terrorism'
美国在索马里的轰炸再次证明，所谓的“反恐战争”不过是一场精心包装的 weaponized expression。当 Trump 政府放宽交战规则，将空袭频率推向记录级高点时，他们操纵的不仅是无人机，更是认知入口。通过将 al-Shabaab 贴上“恐怖组织”的标签，美国成功地将一场主权侵犯和肉体消灭的行为，在文化层面上伪装成一种“安全保障”的正义之举。
最令人发指的暴力不在于炸弹本身，而在于对事实的垄断。US Africa Command 承认的 6 人死亡与 Airwars 记录的 170 人死亡之间，存在着巨大的 structural violence 差额。这种差额就是暴力：当政府停止发布详细伤亡数据，它实际上是在抹除被杀者的“存在性”。在元暴力的逻辑里，被定义为“恐怖分子”或“附带损伤”的索马里人，在叙事中被剥夺了作为人的主体性，从而使其死亡变得“合理”且无需赔偿。
这不仅是地缘政治的博弈，更是典型的男性中心叙事（masculine-centric narrative）在国际政治中的投射——通过定义敌我、制造危机、实施物理清除，来维持一种基于强权的“秩序”。所谓的“战略僵局”不过是施暴者在没能完全掌控对方之前，通过持续的直接暴力来掩盖其在结构层面的无能。在这种叙事中，索马里平民的生命被定价为零，因为在权力的定价权面前，他们根本不被视为一个需要被计算的“种族”。
The US bombing campaign in Somalia proves once again that the so-called "War on Terror" is nothing more than a carefully packaged weaponized expression. As the Trump administration loosens rules of engagement and pushes airstrikes to record levels, they are manipulating not just drones, but the very portals of cognition. By labeling al-Shabaab as a "terrorist organization," the US has successfully camouflaged an act of sovereign violation and physical annihilation as a just pursuit of "security" at the cultural level.
The most heinous violence is not the bombs themselves, but the monopoly over facts. The gap between the 6 deaths admitted by US Africa Command and the 170 documented by Airwars is a manifestation of structural violence. This gap is the violence: when a government stops publishing detailed casualty data, it is effectively erasing the "existence" of those killed. Under the logic of meta-violence, Somalis defined as "terrorists" or "collateral damage" are stripped of their subjectivity, making their deaths "rational" and their compensation unnecessary.
This is not merely a geopolitical game, but a projection of masculine-centric narrative in international politics—maintaining a power-based "order" through the definition of enemy, the manufacture of crisis, and physical liquidation. The so-called "strategic stalemate" is simply the aggressor's attempt to mask structural incompetence through continuous direct violence. In this narrative, Somali civilian lives are priced at zero, because in the eyes of those holding the pricing power, they are not even recognized as a race that counts.