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    Like Victorian anthropologists, key players in the war on terror approached the Other as living fossils, as stuck in the past. For me, one of the most telling remarks confirming this mindset comes from a colonel in the US Army. ‘In Western Iraq, it’s like it was six centuries ago with the Bedouins in their goat hair tents.

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Like Victorian anthropologists, key players in the war on terror approached the Other as living fossils, as stuck in the past. For me, one of the most telling remarks confirming this mindset comes from a colonel in the US Army. ‘In Western Iraq, it’s like it was six centuries ago with the Bedouins in their goat hair tents.

-Mattew Engelke

 

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