Afghanistan reels over extent of pillage

International Herald tribune ^ | 4-02 | Celestine Bohlen

[Free the USA]

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[Mind-numbed Robot]

Unless the free world rallies behind this war on terror, all museums will face the same fate. It will be the Stone Age with modern weapons.

[blam]

Sick bastards!

[McGavin999]

Seeing the destruction of the treasures of the museum was a tragedy, but the most heartrending thing I was was an old man returning to his farm and collecting the deadwood of his vineyard that had been destroyed by the Taliban. Those vines had been on his families land for generations. I would rather see that 30 to 50 million dollars go into replacing the vineyards and orchards that fed that nation.

Yes, you have to feed the soul too, but the body must be fed first.

[Bill Rice]

Oh no - NOT shattered art and broken antiquities!

Now at last the world has a reason to condemn & hate the bastards.

[AmericaUnited]

Let's not forget... it's only stuff. Let's be 10000X more shocked at what they did to people.

[Bonaparte]

Collectors buying stolen antiquities face stiff penalties.

[supercat]

Collectors buying stolen antiquities face stiff penalties.

Perhaps, though ironically many antiquities from those museums now exist only because they had been stolen.

[Miss Marple]

Well, what they did to people was indeed, worse, but this is an aspect of the Islamacists that needs to be pointed out more forcefully, especially to all those clueless university students demonstrating in Washington today.

I fully expect that they have plans to attack the most famous sites in Europe. Perhaps the French might feel a twinge if Chartres or Notre Dame are destroyed; I know I would feel the loss.

Imagine all the museums of the west destroyed. Imagine the Sistine Chapel gone forever, Rembrandt's works set to flame, the Mona Lisa in ashes. Yes, these are things and not people, but they are part of our heritage and the glory of the West.

The barbarians must be defeated.

[Bonaparte]

"...only because they had been stolen."

Yes. The French stole the Rosetta from the Egyptians and the English stole it from the French. It's still in the British Museum today and I've heard no reports of Egypt objecting. But I don't think that will be the case, if one of these Japanese collectors is stupid enough to show off one of his trophies from Afghanistan. There is also the possibility of blackmail by the thief who fenced it to him.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks vannrox. Another oldie but goodie. Now it's bedtime for 'Civ.

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[A.J.Armitage]

The Rosetta Stone is just a mundane legal document... in three languages.

[Physicist]

It's still in the British Museum today and I've heard no reports of Egypt objecting.

Egypt Demands Return of Rosetta Stone

[Little Ray]

Ya know, being a Talibunny or Al Qaeda member should be grounds for immediate, merciless, execution. They should empty out Guantanamo into shallow graves. These people have no place in a civilized world.

[johnb838]

Someone used the term "Rebarb" a while ago, for those new barbarians who would re-barbianize the world. They should be hunted down like rats, as they would hunt us down.

[Bonaparte]

Thanks for the link, Physicist. Very interesting article. Just guessing here, but I think the British will cede the Rosetta about the same time that the Egyptians pay massive reparations to the Jews for the captivity.

[Bonaparte]

"The Rosetta Stone is just a mundane legal document..."

Looking at the English translation, it seems to be a resolution by the Egyptian priesthood in honor of the pharoah, citing all the commendable things he had done and those things the priesthood would be doing to accord him his proper recognition. Some might describe it as lavish and extravagant, rather than mundane.

[Bonaparte]

"The Rosetta Stone is just a mundane legal document..."

Looking at the English translation, it seems to be a resolution by the Egyptian priesthood in honor of the pharoah, citing all the commendable things he had done and those things the priesthood would be doing to accord him his proper recognition. Some might describe it as lavish and extravagant, rather than mundane.