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