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Originally posted by antryg:
The reality is that I'm saddened by so many posting in this forum who delight in believing the worst not only of the American government but its people as well. We are accused of not understanding other nations or cultures but the accusers seem to be no better informed and also seem to have gotten their understanding of American life and culture from movies and TV, which is no more real than a fairy tale.
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I'll stand as one of those accusers who has never left the borders of America my whole 29 year 11 month old life. There is a long list of muslim cultural sensitivities we have just trampled on in our zest for regime change. This comes from someone who has lived in many U.S. states north south east and west and has asorbed plenty of American culture from way more than T.V. and movies. I have drawn this conclusion from American news sources [img]graemlins/offtopic.gif[/img]
Any way-back on topic...
I dont see anything wrong with these treasure being shown abroad. I do see a problem with this decision being made arbitrarily by the occupying powers if thats the case, but as far as I know the Bagdad museum is still run by the same Iraqis who ran it before the invasion, so I would imagine they were part of this decision making process.
Further more, if these Iraqi museum officials did authorize this, than the Muslim and Arab world wouldn't have no grounds to cry foul and claim the Americans were showing off the spoils of war. Only the extreme fundamentilst could make this claim, and they make all sorts of claims so it doesnt matter anyway.
I am interested in the ancient cultures of the middle east myself and look forward to seeing this exhibit if it comes to Boston, so I might be biased on this topic.
If it turns out that the Iraqi museum officials had no say in this, than it may have the
appearance of showing off war booty, even if thats not the intent at heart.
Now this article clearly is about showing off war booty, good or bad:
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[ 08-04-2003, 12:05 AM: Message edited by: Chewbacca ]