On of the oldest libraries in the world burned to the ground yesterday.
There’s nothing left.
“Coalition” troops were five minutes away and did nothing to put out the blaze.
Islamic Library Burned to the Ground
By Robert Fisk for The Independent.
It was the final chapter in the sack of Baghdad. The National Library and Archives
This is terrible, but blaming Americans for it isn’t going to work- they didn’t set the fire and I would bet they don’t have the means to fight fires.
I’m left wondering why the Library and Museum were not guarded.I heard recently the Museum had been closed for two years.Why opened now?
Also looting took place in 1991 and looting is
common after a war.<<< and the US Gov should have
considered it.It needs extreme investigation.
So devastating it’s hard to imagine it,yet it
happened.The oil was guarded but not the
history.The US tends to think in the short term
instead of long term condsequences.It’s the nature of America unfortunately at the political
and somewhat social level.