As our man in Washington, Peter Tompa, observes, journalists of
the Economist do their best to explain the iconoclasm of ISIS. They only fail by repeating
disinformation blaming looting at Apamea on ISIS rather than the odious
Assad regime. Kate FitzGibbon, writing for the Committee for Cultural Policy, reports on the bulldozing of
Nimrud. Meanwhile, what of the culprits? Reports are now appearing in Arab sources suggesting that local men may have been
responsible for
the destruction at the Mosul Museum. If so, that would once again
raise the question whether the "state owns all" approach favored by the archeology lobby inexorably leads to the
trash the past model of ISIS and others.
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