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  • February 28, 2013 at 3:51 am #3454 Reply
    Phidippides
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    Cool photos of ruins from northern Syria, dating to before fifth century A.D.http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2011/11/magnificent-dead-cities-ancient-syria/

    February 28, 2013 at 7:36 pm #28248 Reply
    scout1067
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    I can send you a pretty cool picture of Ancient Samara, but my Bradley is sitting on one of the walls.

    February 28, 2013 at 8:07 pm #28249 Reply
    Phidippides
    Keymaster

    What do you mean “sitting on one of the walls”??

    February 28, 2013 at 11:36 pm #28250 Reply
    scout1067
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    Well, the walls of Ancient Samarah are now about three feet tall in most places.  In order to chase insurgents we often drove over and destroyed walls thsat had been standing for somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 years.  I did not like doing it but I was not going to eat a bullet to save a world landmark.

    March 1, 2013 at 2:17 am #28251 Reply
    Phidippides
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    It's all dust in the end, anyways.

    March 1, 2013 at 1:41 pm #28252 Reply
    Aetheling
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    It's all dust in the end, anyways.

    Just like in Bamiyan

    March 1, 2013 at 3:32 pm #28253 Reply
    scout1067
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    Just like in Bamiyan

    Deliberate VS incidental destruction are two different things entirely and you know it.

    March 1, 2013 at 3:56 pm #28254 Reply
    Aetheling
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    Well, the walls of Ancient Samarah are now about three feet tall in most places.  In order to chase insurgents we often drove over and destroyed walls thsat had been standing for somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 years.  I did not like doing it but I was not going to eat a bullet to save a world landmark.

    you didn't know ?ModifyMonte Cassino is another example about war situations, I don't blame you.

    March 1, 2013 at 4:51 pm #28255 Reply
    Phidippides
    Keymaster

    Just like in Bamiyan

    That's more like a situation in sci-fi movies when aliens invade.  They always destroy the major architectural monuments of civilizations first (White House, St. Peter's Basilica, maybe the Eiffel Tower, etc.).  I guess they're not fans of architecture. 🙂

    March 1, 2013 at 5:02 pm #28256 Reply
    Aetheling
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    That's more like a situation in sci-fi movies when aliens invade.  They always destroy the major architectural monuments of civilizations first (White House, St. Peter's Basilica, maybe the Eiffel Tower, etc.).  I guess they're not fans of architecture. 🙂

    Phid … 🙁

    March 3, 2013 at 4:07 pm #28257 Reply
    Phidippides
    Keymaster

    Syria's sites are feeling the effects of its civil war.http://www.freep.com/article/20130303/COL21/303030091/1081/col

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