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Robbing the cradle of civilization, five years later
Just how bad was the looting of Iraq's museum and archaeological sites? According to Salon's experts, many ancient artifacts have come home, but the looting continues.
[2008-03-20]

  • I can't help but think that...

    a lot of this is melodramatic piling on. I'm not defending the war. And maybe a few of the poster are actually professional historians/archaeologists who would understandably be upset. I'm a Classicist with similarly geeked-out concerns with little relevance to the majority of the planet.

    But I'll bet that the majority of posters are anti-war people who otherwise couldn't give two shits about the Warka Vase, and wouldn't know a cylinder seal from a Milesian ivory dildo if it was shoved up their asses.

    But the war is bad! So I'm going to gnash my teeth over some missing artifact that I've never heard of and would never have wanted to lay eyes on before I knew it was missing! Arrgh!

    Get over yourselves.

    -- aeschylus
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    Thursday, March 20, 2008 01:56 PM
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