When I heard about ISIS's bombing of the Temples of Baalshamin and Bel in Palmyra, Syria, my first thoughts were that as horrible as such "monument terrorism" is, it is not nearly as horrific as the group's mass rapes and killings. Indeed, one of those killings combined both cultural and human destruction: a week before the papers announced that the 2,000-year-old Temple of Baalshamin had been blown up, ISIS members publicly beheaded Khaled al-Asad, the 82-year-old antiquities expert who was kno...
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