It's already dreadful when the first reaction to such a message is "so what, people are being killed" - after a moment you realize what a fatal side effect of war is: you become desensitized to all the other atrocities that happen in war, because you can only think about dying people and violations of international law. Yet war becomes just as catastrophic for the environment there as it does for the people in Iraq - just think of this madness with uranium ammunition and other atrocities from the last Gulf War.
And likewise, cultural assets will suffer and disappear. And with the destruction of cultural assets, much is lost for us - memories of times that are no longer within reach. That too is fatal.
At tagesschau im Internet I found the original article.