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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Jan 2020

      Accidental destruction of culturally important sites is, of course, sadly a part of war (in 1942, we destroyed Leutze's original of Washington Crossing the Delaware!). But we should not be in the business of deliberately targeting major pieces of any nation's cultural heritage.

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Jan 2020

      I'm not in favor of tearing down monuments in the United States, or bombing them elsewhere.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Jan 2020

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      Cultural sites, like civilians, become more legit targets if they are used to shield weapons of war. But as with civilians, their presence should & does give us pause. That's different from targeting such sites to inflict pain. https://twitter.com/gm5626/status/1214013884073426944 …

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Jan 2020

      In both the 1848 siege of Rome and the 1870-71 siege of Paris, European governments raised high alarms against the besieging party shelling the cities. Europe got past that by the 1940s, but a lot was lost along the way.

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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Jan 2020

          In 1860, the British & French deliberately torched the Summer Palace in Beijing, a great architectural loss. Lord Elgin justified it on the theory that their grievance was with the Emperor, not his people. But history has judged that harshly.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Jan 2020

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Tom Nichols

          Oh, indeed there are. And frankly, I suspect a good deal of this is Trump blustering just because people are telling him he can't do something. But it's useful to lay down the marker on what we should not do.https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1214015819375632389 …

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          Tom NicholsVerified account @RadioFreeTom
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          If only there were cases from modern history that would help us know when the enemy removes the presumption of innocence from a civilian targets, like putting AA on dikes or something
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        4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Jan 2020

          It would, as usual, be helpful if Trump didn't talk about stuff like this in this way (not just on Twitter).

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        1. Sean Kelly 🍀‏ @riders_13 5 Jan 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          That’s why there was such a push to get Rome declared an open city in WWII. And the one bombing raid on Rome the US exempted all Catholics from flying on it.

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        2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 5 Jan 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          If only there were cases from modern history that would help us know when the enemy removes the presumption of innocence from a civilian targets, like putting AA on dikes or something

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        3. Daniel Young‏ @dyoung8005 5 Jan 2020
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank

          Love how your boy had throw in his support for Jim Crow monuments in the US even though it’s completely unrelated.

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        2. Michael Underwood‏ @Under823Michael 5 Jan 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          A historian of the 1870-1871 war observed that bombardment of cities was rare before that time, not because earlier commanders were more humane, but because their guns didn't have enough range.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 5 Jan 2020
          Replying to @Under823Michael

          It's easier to be humane about things you lack the technology to do.

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        1. Allan‏Verified account @AllanRicharz 5 Jan 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Recall Kyoto was taken off the A-bomb primary target list due to its cultural importance (and Henry Stimson being a soft touch...)

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