War, as Clausewitz said, is the continuation of politics by other means, but what happens when you live in a country whose opposing factions no longer take up arms against each other? Law becomes the battlefield, and its weird nooks and crannies become the terrain where the battle is fought. And the media become the central weapon of a war of attrition, in which shots are fired whose purpose is not to destroy, but to wear down, to demoralize, and to humiliate. We don’t exile great men with whom we have profound differences to far-distant islands. No, we try to exile them from government buildings — unless, that is, those buildings happen to be jails.