Nineveh is right outside Mosul too, so we're probably on the verge of losing both major Assyrian excavations in one year.BBC News - Nimrud: Outcry as IS bulldozers attack ancient Iraq site
Morons.
The ancient culture obviously not Sunni enough.
Stonewall Jackson was outraged. His entire body shook in anger as he looked around him at what had been done to the city of Fredericksburg. He saw the pianos and the works of art and the crystal chandeliers smashed and ruined on the streets. He saw elegant furniture that had been wantonly vandalized and the remains of elegant, leather-bound books that had been burned for kindling. But it was the churches – the churches – that infuriated him most. Houses of God were pocked with bullet holes and charred by cannon shot. This was a crime against God – a despicable blasphemy – and it very nearly made him weep.
Dr. McGuire, who was seldom far from Jackson’s side, shook his head in revulsion. “What can we do about this kind of barbaric behavior?”
Jackson’s voice trembled. “Kill ‘em,” he said. “Kill ‘em all.”
From 'No Greater Courage' by Richard Croker
Ridiculous - imo unless they return our beagle they can **** offI hear we're looking to sign a non-aggression pact with Mars next week.
I've been so tempted for months to make a thread like this. Top work Pratters.Woke up to the news that the Islamic State Bulldozed the world heritage site of Nimrud destroying large parts of it. So annoying.
Wrong thread Dan. This belongs to the Solar System Politics Thread.I hear we're looking to sign a non-aggression pact with Mars next week, while free trade negotiations with Neptune are going swimmingly.
So UK's foreign affairs wouldn't go in the British Politics thread? Wrong again. Apology accepted.Wrong thread Dan. This belongs to the Solar System Politics Thread.
We'd nuke 'em to dust. obviously. The only Pakistanis left posting here would be the ones settled outside the country. Nice knowing you, Xuhaib and Dawood.AN, is correct. I've wondered what would happen on here if there was an Indo-Pakistan war (a potential conflict which is very possible at some point) and so this thread would be good for it. I wonder if the India and Pakistan politics threads would invade each other
I think we can sort of forget about how awful nuclear war could be since the end of the Cold War and we should still be trying to cut down the amounts of nuclear weapons in existence. I don't recall it being high on the world agenda since the Iraq War and the rise of various Islamist groups.
I suspect that a major event like that would have its own thread, but this is an incredibly tedious discussion so I'm going to stop.Why shouldn't it?
If the US invades Pakistan, where would you put it? Pak politics thread or the US politics thread? Why not have a geo political/world politics thread for issues involving multiple states and have the state political threads for internal state issues.