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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I'm not in favor of tearing down monuments in the United States, or bombing them elsewhere.
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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted
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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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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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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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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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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He can't talk about things any other way. His worst and his best are the same; he always will be only this way.
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