Why Hasn’t The West Sent In A Force To Protect Hatra And Other Sites?

How many well-armed American and European troops, with air support, to have surrounded Hatra, or the museum in Mosul, or other sites, and protected them from ruin? How many such troops would it now take to protect the sites in Libya? Forget the Muslims, forget their internecine warfare , and protect the pre-Islamnic sites. For god’s sake, why wasn’t this thought about months ago, why weren’t plans made, why is nothing being done now?

Duty To Protect? Yes, a Duty To Protect monuments, artifacts, art works. That’s the Duty To Protect. American troops ought to have surrounded, and protected, the Bamiyan Buddhas. Why didn’t they? Think of the gratitude from people in China, Korea, Japan. My god, what a lost opportunity, in every sense.

And what will happen tomorrow, or the day after, in Libya? Can you guess?

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