if you go to museums now, any museum, you see a lot of statues don t have heads and arms on them. that s because they were broken by people. but they were broken by people hundreds or thousands of years ago. not today and tomorrow. on more pedestrian terms, is it strategically important either should we look at it strategically important that isis has now taken a city from bashar al-assad s troops and is it strategically important that they do seem to control ever more oil and gas infrastructure inside syria? yes and yes. i think the fact that they are taking territory directly away from the syrian government is a problem. it s showing how weak the syrian government has now become after four years roughly of constant fighting in the country. the syrian government has been
museum, you see a lot of statues don t have heads and arms on them. that s because they were broken by people. but they were broken by people hundreds or thousands of years ago. not today and tomorrow. on more pedestrian terms, is it strategically important either, should we look at it strategically important that isis has now taken a city from bashar al-assad s troops and is it strategically important that they do seem to control ever more oil and gas infrastructure inside syria? yes and yes. i think the fact that they are taking territory directly away from the syrian government is a problem. it s showing how weak the syrian government has now become after four years roughly of constant fighting in the country.
why not? but i don t think they re trying to overplay their hand to terrorize people. i think they want to destroy these things and will destroy them, if possible and will sell them if they can carry them away. this is not new. there has been tens, there has been a tendency you know in many religions to have these moments of iconoclastic violence. but it was the kind of thing you saw in the early christian era, hundreds if not thousands of years ago. if you go to museums now, any museum, you see a lot of statues don t have heads and arms on them. that s because they were broken by people. but they were broken by people hundreds or thousands of years ago. not today and tomorrow. on more pedestrian terms, is it strategically important either, should we look at it strategically important that isis has now taken a city from bashar al-assad s troops and is