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 :While German and British fighter pilots in World War I were the deadliest of enemies, stories of chivalry are not as rare as might be expected. In one case, German pilot Oswald Boelke shot down a British plane in January, 1916. Boelke then landed and was delighted so see that he had brought down the enemy plane with its two-person crew alive. He had a long talk with the pilot, saw to it that they were both taken in a car to the hospital, and later visited crewmember Fomilli in hospital, who wrote a letter to a Captain Babington of the Royal Flying Corps telling that they were alive and wanted their families to know that. The Germman pilot took the letter and dropped it over the British lines where it reached the captain and ultimately the crew member's family ("Gentlemen of the skies: German flew behind enemy lines to deliver letter from Brit he shot down. MailOnline 8 September 2012).
-If we try to find a way to describe the Syrian situation today, we have to look for an antonym to the Mühlmannina term of agonal partnership - a search that could produce a term like "agonal autism". That would refer to the lack of communality, and the non-functioning of social communication and interaction including a basic lack of reciprocity. In people with an autistic personality disorder this comes to show in the problems that appear in everyday rituals like meeting and leaving, asking, giving and thanking, reciprocal smiles, frowns etc. - To be sure, the clinical term of autism has quite a varied use from Eugen Bleuler's first use in 1911 as a central symptom of schizophrenia over Sigmund Freud's equation of autism with narcissism, and all the way to today's everyday use to refer to persons with an excessive self-centeredness and who are in need of help because of their living mostly in their own imagination.
+In the Syrian conflict, there is no such thing as agonal partnership. Much to the contrary. Like other "small" wars, it is characterized by deep hatred and lack of empathy, the absence or violation of humanitarian law and rules of engagement, a lack of distinction between combatants and non-combatants, and even between war and peace. Small wars like the Syrian one are almost by definition wars of blurred boundaries and de-civilizing vicious circles of brutality. Not only the other side's combatants are being defined as enemy, but the ethnic, religious or national group in its entirety. Civilians are seen as legitimate objects of sub-state actors in small wars - but even regular armies tend towards assimilating to the irregular ways of fighting they see in their counterparts. Moreover, small wars are being fought everywhere: in deserts and urban centers, on battlefields and the bridges or Christmas markets of European capitals. In addition, long-distance weapons like killer drones guided by far away armchair "pilots" and/or impersonal computer software ("disposition matrix"), the use of makeshift weapons like trucks or cars, etc., contribute to a chaotic situation in which nothing is harder to imagine than chivalry as part of agonal partnership.
+The very fact that sub-state actors use unconventional weapons, tactics, and objects - including civilians - makes them more vulnerable to a definition as terrorists. Such a label paves the way for a strategy of extermination rather than negotiation. As White House Speaker Scott McClellan said when asked how the United States would react to Usama bin Laden's offer to negotiate a truce in 2006, "We don't negotiate with terrorists. We put them out of business" (Buncombe 2006). - And is it hard to imagine a symmetric attitude on the part of insurgents with the experience of being exposed to incessant large-scale bombing and drone raids? Hence, what is certainly lacking in the Syrian conflict, is "agonal partnership" as a window of opportunity for getting to the negotiating table.
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+If we try to find a way to describe the Syrian situation today, we have to look for an antonym to the Mühlmannina term of agonal partnership - a search that could produce a term like "agonal autism". That would refer to the lack of communality, and the non-functioning of social communication and interaction including a basic lack of reciprocity. In people with an autistic personality disorder this comes to show in the problems that appear in everyday rituals like meeting and leaving, asking, giving and thanking, reciprocal smiles, frowns etc. - To be sure, the clinical term of autism has quite a varied use from Eugen Bleuler's first use in 1911 as a central symptom of schizophrenia over Sigmund Freud's equation of autism with narcissism, and all the way to today's everyday use to refer to persons with an excessive self-centeredness and who are in need of help because of their living mostly in their own imagination. While it may certainly be seen as objectionable to pick a term of individual pathology to draw analogies to political strategies, one may decide to provisionally accept this manoeuvre - and be it ''faute de mieux'' until some more appropriate term emerges.
 Extreme self-centeredness is a natural developmental phase in the first months of a human baby's life. According to Sigmund Freud, the Ego-Ideal can be seen as its inheritance in the adult (just like the Super-Ego can be seen as the inheritance of the Oediupus conflict). In developmental criminology, some theorists (e.g. Kaplan 1980) contend that the need for a defense against low self-esteem (brought about by low performance in school) can be seen as a motivating factor for delinquent behavior (with defensiveness operationalized as a discrepancy between scores on measures of high conscious self-esteem and low unconscious esteem). In social psychology, a certain self-centeredness in the service of the defense of self can be seen manifesting itself in husband-wife conflicts. Here, each partner tends to have his/her own narrative of who treated whom unfairly first. This is what interactionist communication researchers have come to refer to as the phenomenon of discrepant punctuation in a sequence of events (Watzlawick et al. 1967). Whereas stimulus-response psychologists typically confine their attention to short sequences of interchange making it possible to label one item of input as 'stimulus' and another item as 'reinforcement', while labelling what the subject does between these two events as 'response', in a longer chain of events every item in the sequence can simultaneously be seen as stimulus, response, and reinforcement: