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GummyBearz

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13. I was close to posting a similar comment

Reply to Elmer S. E. Dump (Reply #10)

Mon Mar 28, 2016, 09:55 PM

Mar 2016

But I just didn't want to deal with the obvious head ache of the "Bush (ie. 'we' as in the west) created ISIS" retort, and then be forced to defend Bush and point out he didn't order the destruction of the antiquities, only to get countered by other things he did do, and then spend the evening face palming myself.

You are a brave one sir.

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Experts shocked by damage inside Palmyra’s museum [View all] Calista241 Mar 2016 OP

............ Angry Dragon Mar 2016 #1

Nile wrote a song about this shit. Codeine Mar 2016 #2

The same is happening with Yemen's proud heritage sites with the Saudi/U.S. Weapons supplied polly7 Mar 2016 #3

He is an educated man looking at the work of the severely uneducatated and radicalized. Zira Mar 2016 #4

China's Cultural Revolution, too MisterP Mar 2016 #9

Super sad! Laf.La.Dem. Mar 2016 #5

Barbarians Gomez163 Mar 2016 #6

This is so awful. leftyladyfrommo Mar 2016 #7

Civilization began in the Middle East. We are destroying our earliest history. yardwork Mar 2016 #8

We? Elmer S. E. Dump Mar 2016 #10

I was close to posting a similar comment GummyBearz Mar 2016 #13

History Tailgates Marbgd1 Mar 2016 #11

Luckily the archaeologists should be able to reconstruct them. ErikJ Mar 2016 #12

True. romanic Mar 2016 #14

Syria's tourist industry is gone. Will the 2,000 families who lived around Palmyra return? Sunlei Mar 2016 #15

Iran has been buying up land in Syria... Xolodno Mar 2016 #16

Russia is ally of Syria & Iran.I guess the millions who lost homes & fled Syria are gone for good. Sunlei Mar 2016 #17

Doubt it. Xolodno Mar 2016 #18

I was in Palmyra two weeks before the protests started that led to the Civil War... brooklynite Mar 2016 #19