A helpful suggestion
Written by James Russell
Published July 20, 2003
Published July 20, 2003
An American archaeologist yesterday urged her compatriots to kill the looters who are pillaging archaeological sites in Iraq. "I would like to see some helicopters flying over these sites, and some bullets fired at the looters," Elizabeth Stone, head of archaeology at Stony Brook University in New York, said in London yesterday. "I think you have got to kill some people to stop this."
Why don't you just destroy all the artifacts? That'd really bring the trade to a halt.
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Specialists of all kinds tend to get pretty skewed perspectives.