Mrs. Edge
Bono's Belly Dancing Friend
Dreadsox, I think you are taking what Scarletwine and I and others are saying in the wrong way, and maybe a bit too personally. Maybe I am still not being clear in what I am trying to get across, so one last clarification:
No one here is suggesting that the soldiers are bad in any way, or that we think artifacts themselves are worth more than human life, American or otherwise. But neither is OIL is my point. These historical artifacts are every bit as important, in a different way, to the future and the people of Iraq as the oil. That is the crux of what I am saying. The fact that people put cultural things like this on the bottom of the priority list annoys me to no end.
I know you are not an arrogant person at all, and I'm sorry if I offended you. I meant that your tone was arrogant in that you are sounding very DISDAINFUL....like who needs a museum anyway.....it's a frill...not worth protecting.... Not only are these artifacts unworthy of death, but they are unworthy of a SCRATCH or a DROP of blood....and the fact that you singled out American blood made it seem like losing American blood is worse than anyone else's.....I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but non-Americans are a bit more sensitive to the whole "Americans are more important than everyone else" thing, that's all.
And the point I was making about the police is perfectly valid and relevant I think. If policemen put their lives on the line to protect things at home, I don't see how preventing the looters from getting to the museum is any different. Soldiers get hurt in a wide variety of duties during a war. And as I said, if not the army, then they should have had some special riot police sent in...not just for the artifacts, but also for the hospitals and everything else they might have needed.
That's all I am saying on this topic. It's my Bday, and I don't feel like fighting right now.
No one here is suggesting that the soldiers are bad in any way, or that we think artifacts themselves are worth more than human life, American or otherwise. But neither is OIL is my point. These historical artifacts are every bit as important, in a different way, to the future and the people of Iraq as the oil. That is the crux of what I am saying. The fact that people put cultural things like this on the bottom of the priority list annoys me to no end.
I know you are not an arrogant person at all, and I'm sorry if I offended you. I meant that your tone was arrogant in that you are sounding very DISDAINFUL....like who needs a museum anyway.....it's a frill...not worth protecting.... Not only are these artifacts unworthy of death, but they are unworthy of a SCRATCH or a DROP of blood....and the fact that you singled out American blood made it seem like losing American blood is worse than anyone else's.....I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but non-Americans are a bit more sensitive to the whole "Americans are more important than everyone else" thing, that's all.
And the point I was making about the police is perfectly valid and relevant I think. If policemen put their lives on the line to protect things at home, I don't see how preventing the looters from getting to the museum is any different. Soldiers get hurt in a wide variety of duties during a war. And as I said, if not the army, then they should have had some special riot police sent in...not just for the artifacts, but also for the hospitals and everything else they might have needed.
That's all I am saying on this topic. It's my Bday, and I don't feel like fighting right now.