Nice Pictures!!!

let's hope the afters look as good as the befores.

ya those pics are going to be kinda like you, except it will be badmorphing after the war

??? Na, I will always be me. And I will always appreciate the greatness in a culture. And I hope that these places will long live in their beauty. I hope they see peace.

One of the eternal shames of man's blind devotion to war is his destruction of his own Architecture and social environment.
So many monumental and significant artefacts have been and will go on to be lost through man's stupidity.

That was why I felt lucky to be able to see these places now.

It's not only the architecture and social environment that I think about a lot. It is the animal world, the forests....

many a night we circled Angkhor Wat in Cambodia waiting on instruction to fire or not fire with our Spectre gunship at the Khmer Rouge forces hiding in the area. Thankfully for now, Angkhor Wat was spared, although it made fighting the war much more difficult at the time. destroying a fabulous millenia-old ruins with our 105mm howitzer would have been a sickening experience.

I'm glad. I hope these fine places are preserved as well.

> I was so sad when the Taliban took down those two great Buddhas.

I wasn't sad...I was disgusted.... >

artefacts => artifacts

Sorry, BKB...that's one of those US/UK/AUS thingies.
I, too, am correct....

a draw beats a loss any day

http://groups.msn.com/morphingpuppycom/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=1&ID_Message=19

I hope this is an indication that at least some sites are being safeguarded (like BKB did).

...I know many will say it is for the strategic value, but I am kind of a dreamer....

it was on MSNBC