Palmyra Has Fallen

Some of the most beautiful and well-preserved ruins of antiquity face destruction as forces loyal to Assad withdraw to western strongholds.

A genuinely horrifying thing.  Read the rest.

5 thoughts on “Palmyra Has Fallen

  1. Is that because we keep abandoning what we call “dictators” for political correctness reasons and for not understanding their role in their corner of the world thereby shooting ourselves in the proverbial foot?
    Taking a look at ISIS or ISIL, keep in mind that these are the guys Saddam, Assad and Mubarak used to throw from roofs and towers… So, when a poisonous snake is eating another one, the USA should not interfere… it is not a bad thing.

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  2. Sad but isn’t the suffering of the civilians of more concern than the historic monuments ? We in the UK and Germany lost an awful lot of historic stuff in the bombing raids of WW 2.

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