Brian Williams: Remembering The News - Media on The Huffington Post

I enjoyed your "Lincoln Logs" (hot dogs split on bread) over at "Slate" and I'm not too sure what that guy is doing across the way at 30 Rock either, (too far to be a lip reader?) but you'd think the atomic clocks on the wall would at least be in sync. (New GPS orders?) I wish in hindsight that the US would have consulted further with people who I knew know more, but were not. Let me give you an example. MacArthur fellowship receiver Elizabeth Stone, Ph.D., an archaeologist who has studied women's roles in the ancient "fertile crescent" with whom I studied ancient history and "Nuzi" a site excavated by Dr. Starr from Harvard University in the 1930s, near Kirkuk and the oil fields of Mosul, Iraq (or in Spanish Irak). She instead of perhaps, had the antiquities there to help Iraqis, after the invasion sort back into pre-Saddam ideology, instead must help trace the theft of antiquities from the museum of what historians have taught to be the origin of western civilization, though Iraq is listed in the Encyclopedia Britannica as in "south-west Asia". Other social anthropologists have studied the Kurds who are in the millions as people with a shared culture in what today has become what five countries? (after the USSR dissolved) and others who have spent time living and studying in those areas of the world could have been at least somehow involved in the current administration and shown to be involved. I think if the US government had, in the spirit of the Peace Corps or Veterans For Peace, it perhaps may have also kept the Republican Guard there in Iraq in uniform and gainfully employed. Instead we have maybe let in the other dangerously re-occurring event of western civilization, the civil war. Brian Williams: Remembering The News - Media on The Huffington Post