Enforcing UNESCO Obligations

In a comment on Peter Tompa's blog, English writer John Howland has this to add about Libya:

If Libya fails to meet its Unesco obligations, which looks highly likely, what then? I'll wager the same idiots who denigrate US foreign policy at every opportunity and US collectors in particular, will demand US military action. In other words, they will expect, nay demand, US troops to risk their lives to save ancient monuments, museums, and other Libyan cultural icons. Far better in my view, that those in the archaeology circus, strap on a four foot long piece of timber to strengthen their backbones, and go and do their own dying and fighting. If Libya's heritage is that important to them, let them die for it.

I think we all wish them all dead anyway. Of course they may try to get our young men to do the job for them by claiming that Libyan heritage is being used to generate ISIS dollars.