Uh, dude, we were fighting a WAR at the time. Too bad about the books but there were living people getting shot at at the time.
If you want to know why this was done, ask the damn looters. No American told them to go burn their own heritage down.
LQ
This is a good point. Why would these people burn down their own heritage. Did he ask them? I doubt it. Do they see it as part of Saddam's heritage? Do they hate him that much? Fisk should have asked why. He should spend a little time trying to figure out where all this bottled up rage is coming from. And then he should ask himself why he wanted them to remain under Saddam's evil thumb.