Razing Iraq

March 31st, 2005 at 09:36 Björn Hallberg

Global Policy Forum. Like reported earlier ("Barbarians in Babylon"), many of the archaeological sites in Iraq have been considerably damaged by US recklessness.

The overall situation in Iraq is overwhelmingly a human tragedy but that does not exempt the U.S. authorities, who set up Camp Babylon, from the consequences of what The Guardian called an act of "cultural barbarism" � carried out in their name by a subsidiary of Halliburton. There must be a full investigation of the damage caused, and Halliburton should be made to offer whatever compensation is possible for the wanton destruction of the world’s cultural treasure.

"Camp Babylon". Can it get any more arrogant? But it is a telling tale like I said before. One should not believe that these are mere coincidences. Instead one could see it as open disregard for anyone else’s cultural heritage (because anything worth making a note of happens in the US right?). Indeed, on a psychological level, we could be dealing with a kind of jealousy and wanting to be part of something greater. A part of history as a great civilization. Something the US will never be except in their own twisted fantasies.

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