After 9/11, in the netherworld of the War on Terror, Western security states set down a dark path; they began rejecting the very idea that war had rules, that prisoners were still humans with rights. America’s War on Terror had created an enduring, transnational third dimension, a lethal space of limbo, untethered from the rules-based international order, in which suspects were passed around, held indefinitely, tortured, and executed. The West had become more extreme, and professed confusion at the extremism that arose in response.
