Dear George,
I’ve just finished reading a tear-stained article by a bleeding heart bemoaning how we’ve destroyed Iraq’s past. It seems the looting of artifacts has become an ad-hoc form of unemployment insurance as archeological sites thousands of years old are stripped bare. According to the writer, we are stealing the country’s history.
Obviously, the writer understands nothing about realpolitik. History is so yesterday. No nation is going to achieve modernity until its citizens are cleansed of their historical memory, and the quickest way to do that is to loot their artifacts, those physical reminders of a glorious past that retards a culture’s progress. (I swear, George, your job would be so much easier is a “tragic” fire swept through our National Archives and reduced our founding documents to ashes.)
It is impossible to liberate a people until we free them from the tyranny of the past. Memory retards, and past experience is regressive in a rapidly changing world. Reduce the native mind to an empty void and it is ready to be filled with our ideas, our mores, and our way of doing things. America is where she is today because we have a population totally lacking in historical memory.
You have called our armed forces, “The greatest force for human liberation the world has ever known.” Your meaning is clear. Our military is tasked with reducing to rubble anything that might remind a nation of its history. Stripped of their history, a people become supine and passive, ready to be recreated as the new citizens of the world of hypercapitalism in which their focus is shifted from Allah to shopping.
So keep gutting those archeological sites until only grains of sand remain.
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
4:06:26 AM 
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