A final tally on the alleged looting of the National Museum on Baghdad. Another embarrassment for the New York Times. Here’s Frank Rich in full Krugmanian cry:
“Is it merely the greatest cultural disaster of the last 500 years, as Paul Zimansky, a Boston University archaeologist, put it? Or should we listen to Eleanor Robson, of All Souls College, Oxford, who said, ‘You’d have to go back centuries, to the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258, to find looting on this scale’?”
Ahem. My take on this now completely debunked hysteria can be found in Salon.
The Dish 