Antiquities Coalition @CombatLooting · 11 minSo, Americans protect the cultural heritage of Waziristan (for example) not for Waziri citizens, but to use to promote their own values? Eh?
We welcome @DeptofDefense 's statement reaffirming the longstanding U.S. commitment to safeguarding #culturalheritage from war and terrorism—not just for preservation, but as a tool to share American values, build diplomatic ties, and fight violent extremism.
I understand the need we all feel to stop the guy in the White House from smashing it, and his gangsterish rants the other day about doing so were a betrayal of those very values that my generation was coaxed into believing were not only "American values", but the Values-All-Of-Us-Should-Aspire-To, but the reasons why we agree to not go around smashing and stealing other people's cultural heritage go deeper than their potential propaganda use.
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