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I’m going to post an exert from the oh so trustworthy Clinton News Network.

“Confucius said: “Study the past if you would define the future,” Seems like solid advice to listen too, “[…] ISIS, like so many iconoclastic extremist groups through history, seeks to destroy the record of the past. In the past week, video has circulated showing neatly dressed figures wielding rather new-looking sledgehammers and destroying archaeological objects in the Mosul Museum. The spectacle would be ridiculous and pathetic if it were not so tragic. […]” You have no idea.

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But wait! It gets even better. […] But it is not just a question for teachers, professors and museum curators; there needs to be much greater awareness and protection of the past across society, in Iraq, in the United States and around the world, from the government to the public … Providing educational opportunities and empowering communities to learn more about their cultures and histories, and those of others, is one of the best ways to eradicate destructive hatred and violence […]

So instead of preserving and learning from our past they decide to have government officials thrown from power for making the same, correct I may add, correlation. They know how all of this is going to end, yet they foolishly seem not afraid.