The World Of Art

There have been and will be lots of stories about the looting and the loss of priceless artifacts in the Museums of Baghdad. McGuire Gibson, a Professor at the Oriental Instituted at the University of Chicago, described it this way to Salon, "It's catastrophic. It's a lot like a lobotomy. The deep memory of an entire culture, a culture that has continued for thousands of years, has been removed. There was 5,000 years of written records, even Egyptian records don't go back that far. It's an incredible crime."

What interests me is how the right is willing to completely turn a blind eye to this tragedy, and seem annoyed that anybody would complain about it. It would be one thing if they said "Well this is a terrible tragedy, but that's what happens in a war." And to be fair, some are saying that. But some seem to think that this story is a media fabrication or something. Even bringing it up as a concern or an issue is proof that you don't love Ameirca.

But then again, what else is new.