The Scholar in Me Weeps

[mburbank]

I hardly know which bit of who's willful ignorance and myopia to start with.

Abcddx: Everything you think here is based on pure, personal supposition. I am also amazed at your personal tunnel vision. That collection was a repository of the worlds culture. Mathematics and language were invented between the Tigris and Euphrates. It is the single most important archeological site on earth. Your uninformed conjecture about one small aspect of this treasure trove is obsessive. Your siting other regional minorities is also irrelevant. Not that I don't think those are worthy areas of archeological and cultural study, not that I think they are not significant in the regions history, but The main articles of significance in the collection date back to the city of Ur. The Babalonyian Captivity is last week comepared to some of that stuff. It isn't just hyperbole or Arab nationalism to call the area around Bahgdad the "Cradle of Civilization" it's a close to true as the current world archelogical record gets.

Shach; Swell, they 'plan', they 'hope'. They'll get back a good deal of it I imagine, and that's great. But a lot of it is gone for good or will only resurface in private collections. As I've mentioned, the archeological records and small artifacts are almost certainly unrecoverable. And the Library? Good luck.

Now on to the seniormost shaved ape here. Vincent. Do you revel in your stupidity, or just not recognize it?

"I give the people the benefit of the doubt of seeing these treasures as part of Saddam trying to show his great cultural history, considering the asshole thought he was an Old Testament type ruler. So I don't blame them for going apeshit. "

1.) I doubt sincerely that any Arabs at all, Iraqis or otherwise, saw this museum as emblematic of Saddam. This is the record of civilzation, theirs most particularly, but everyone's in general. The artifactas predate Judaism, Pre-date the Egyptian Empire, Pre-date every other civilization. Do you think the Italians identified the remains of Pompeii with Muselini? Because that would have been lot less of a stretch in years and significance. And Saddam identified himself with Saladin, not an old testament anything. I'm sure their pleased you don't blame them for going apeshit, though.

"Do I personally care? Not really."
That's because you're a cretin, Vince. And I'm being kind.