This man is a hero. He should be remembered.

[anunitu]

Re: This man is a hero. He should be remembered.

Heard on the news that Donald now has white supremacists that are his new fan club....

[Hawkfeathers]

Re: This man is a hero. He should be remembered.

The latest is that Charlie Sheen wants to be his V.P.

[Tylluan Penry]

Re: This man is a hero. He should be remembered.

Our version of that is Fox News.

That's true... absolutely dire...

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The latest is that Charlie Sheen wants to be his V.P.

Thought he already was

[anunitu]

Re: This man is a hero. He should be remembered.

Seems the topic got lost in here somewhere...

[thalassa]

Re: This man is a hero. He should be remembered.

And as for smashing up history - nations have been doing that for years.

The Allied forces did a pretty good job of blasting 1400 years of history into oblivion at Monte Cassino in WW2 as I remember.

It's never right, but it's not new, either.

In an actual battle scenario, the destruction of sites like this is tragic. In a survival scenario, the destruction of a piece of an antique and one of a kind piece of furniture or artwork is sad. In a war, or even in peace, the occasional looting by a bad seed (or a decent person in an indecent situation) is disappointingly regretable. But these situations are also understandable. They are the events that make the pieces that survive all the more important. They are humanity's "fossil record".

Which is what makes the systemic and intentional destruction of art and history all the worse. And it doesn't matter if its been going on forever, by every culture, or not. What ISIS is doing is more like the theft and intentional destruction of art and architecture by the Nazi's during WWII (and I'm not invoking Godwin with that reference!)...