The Great Wonders Of The American Empire: (1) The Looting Of The Baghdad Museum

When the Baghdad Museum was looted, prominent Neoconservatives said that it was the proper thing to do. If the bricks and potsherds and clay tablets contained information which agreed with Neoconservative views, then they were redundant and superfluous and may be disposed of as imperfect forerunners of the 1,000 year regime of Neocon. If, however, the articles of the Baghdad Museum contradicted the tenets of Neoconservative philosophy, then they were pernicious and must be destroyed and scattered to the four winds. And this reminds us of the Great Library at Alexandria established by Ptolemy I, the destruction of which provided a time-line of the disintegration of the Ancient World.

(So...in my dreams, I stand up in the House of Burgesses amidst the clamoring of voices. Waiting a long time for silence, I begin my speech and come to the conclusion: "...the Great Library at Alexandria ended in flames, just as Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose ends in a scene of conflagration, just as Fahrenheit 451 ends in Fire and Snow, so may this Administration..." At this point, Neoconservatives and their running dogs were heard to shout "Treason! Treason!".

I waited for them to quiet their slavering jaws. "...so may the present Neoconservative Administration profit from their example. If this be treason, then make the most of it."