I know I've had my fun with the blithering idiots over on Politics' who never heard of Mesopotamia and didn't know Iraq even HAD a Museum until April. And while I've enjoyed pointing out how wrong they were about this "rape of civilization" there were a couple points I missed about the "170,000 missing items that suddenly became 28." Like, as the suthor points out, the "miles and miles" of display space that would have required. But beyond all that, he makes an interesting point about antiquties: that for the most part a lot of this stuff would be better off in private hands anyway. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/richlowry/rl20030527.shtml