There was a report this morning on NPR about the ancient ruins of Babylon and Camp Alpha, the army base that has been built on top of it. To say the least I'm frustrated and disappointed. This is one of the oldest cities in the world, the cradle of our damn civilization... and we're bulldozing helicopter pads and filling sand bags... this is above and beyond allowing the looting that we did, this is like pissing on the grave of humanity.
I found a couple articles about it, like this one...
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wobaby133848417jun13,0,4603741.story?coll=ny-worldn
ews-headlines
but it seemed from the NPR report that things were worse than the official story out of the CPA. go figure. http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1973682
not just at Babylon but at some of the other 10,000 some sites in Iraq.
It just shows me the utter lack of respect that we would even build bases on historic sites. It's everyone's history. Tragic loss... I'm so pissed.