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| An antiquities lover asks |
Would we defend the pyramids?
The Great Sphinx..?
The Parthenon in Greece?
Would we go to war to save culture?
Perhaps going to war for culture is an oxymoron.
And maybe going to war for humanity is just an Orwellian contruct.
And yet...
It does make me, a lover of antiquities, particularly ancient Egypt's, wonder if I am missing something.
Is there little real will to stop the madness? I mean, really stop it. NOW. Not merely degrade the perpetrators' military capabilities, as they are degrading ancient history. But obliterating the madness once and for all.
(Why are these people still on the planet? Is the US playing some measured, longer game we don't know about by holding back? One hopes it's not just because Assad's Syria is a Russian client state and so they're letting extremists run rampant over the cradle of civilization to spite an old enemy!)
But of course it's not just down to the US.
I believe it is going to take a brokering of the combined goodwill of the world's nations to defeat such malignancy.
It's not a battle of civilizations, it's a battle for civilization and its roots.
