Posted on 03/01/2015 12:28:43 PM PST by NYer
Yep. Other than using the Sphinx for artillery practice.
we need to capture ISIS terrorists and tie them up and go after them with sledge hammers .
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The lying SOB that inhabits the WH keeps repeating again and again, trying to convince us that Muslims have made such grand cultural contributions to society. What a steaming pile of BS. Not only have they never built or creating anything that contributes to civilized society, they actively and aggressively destroy anything and everything that represents civilized society including its humanity.
While the British Museum and the Met may have their flaws they tend not to take drills and hammers to their artifacts.
Effing savages. Nuke the lot of them.
“Legitimate Grievences” -Barack Obama
My first thought! Typical humanist- humans are expendable, my stuff is not.
This is just destroying history not “idols”. This will only cause the opposition to them to grow.
When you are dead inside, 100% dead in every way that matters while you still waste air, you give us, I suppose, a taste of Armageddon.
Who? ISIS or obama and jarret?
Islam (peaceful, moderate or militant) and culture (any culture) is an oxymoron.
Give it another 100 years and any trace of an “American” culture will be non-existent.
It’s deja vu all over again. Remember when the Progressives railed against the invasion when the looting started? Where are they now? Somehow this destruction will be the fault of the US again.
You’d think that they would at least think of selling them first before smashing the hell out of them.
The population of Mosul is 1,800,000, and it's reasonable to assume most of the population is Iraqi.
My new permanent attitude to whatever they suffer now and in the future is simple. If all of those Iraqis of all ages do not see the life-and death urgency of defending their own community, their population, their families, and their cultural heritage, THEY CAN BETTER ACCEPT THAT NO FURTHER AMERICAN BLOOD AND TREASURE WILL DO IT FOR THEM! PERIOD.
I will support helping the Iraqis who clearly are not members of the barbaric two-legged animals in ISIS and related bands of criminals, but only if that help is guaranteed not to be allowed to eventually get to the enemy, and under no circumstances will that aid be in terms of U.S. Dollars dumped into that God-forsaken place full of criminals, corrupt politicians and opportunities milking the American taxpayer..
Resist or die now should be their own choice.
No more American waste there, please!
One imagines that Obama and Pelosi would be supplying sledgehammers at the Washington and Jefferson monuments, deeming the destruction 'a lifestyle choice'.
THIS is why the Elgin Marbles can stay right where they are.
And I am extremely conservative, and paradoxically, our ends would be the same : preservation of humanity's history and legacy, no matter how primitive and brutal it may be.
In the past, in recent times, I am amazed that academic institutions world wide have not insisted on using the available amazing technology to record exact digital 3D records to reproduce these treasures for the future. The technique can be applied to minuscule items as well as to entire buildings.
Why hasn't UNESCO insisted on this preservation of humanity's Legacy?
Instead, the UN seems to concentrate on enabling the worst cultures, the most ignorant and brutal that currently exist, and that history has seen in the last 70 years or so.
Animals not worth saving, in my opinion.
But the cultural historical record? Absolutely.
If any self appointed or "elected" "Iraqi a*****e wants to charge ransom for permission to photograph and scan these treasures, I would shoot him on the spot, as well as all his associates, his family and his camels and goats. Even his Toyota pickup truck.
Or we can all decide that these ancient cultures and their cultural product is not worth saving.
There is no other choice.
I hope your comments were tongue-in-cheek.
“The ancient pagan idols cannot be replaced.”
They can easily be replaced - notice that some of the objects destroyed were not artifacts but replicas. REPLICAS. The average person can’t tell the replica from the real thing.
“Christians can be replaced and there are 3 billion of them anyway.”
No. An individual human being cannot be replaced for he is truly unique. You can’t tell an artifact from a replica, but I bet you could tell your real child from a “replacement”.
“They can handle a few massacres here and there.”
What? And the world can’t handle losing some artifacts that most of us have never even seen in person? I have a PhD in history and know that most of what men have created over the centuries has been lost and yet we’re still chugging along as a species. I hate to see the art destroyed, but once it is excavated, retrieved, examined, restored, photographed, and imaged using a 3-D imaging device we know about as much about it as we ever will and the object is nothing but a museum piece to be gawked at by tourists. You can even send replicas on tour: https://www.flickr.com/photos/30496810@N07/2923920612/
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