07-24-2014, 03:41 PM
It is not so much war itself that threatens the cultural heritage, it is public ignorance and religious fervour, whatever the religion (just about any "-ism", including the firm belief in capitalism). War only provides an oppertunity as these unscrupules elements gain control. Frankly, much of the general public couldn't care less. Even in "civilised" countries, cultural heritage is being torn down for a shopping mall, archeological sites are destructed for a highway, a windpark built on the brink of a historical setting. So all those billions of taxpayers money will NOT be put to use documenting old junk, it is a pipedream to imagine it will.
