Chris Jones: Trump's tweeted threats about Iranian cultural sites only spins the world backwards
CHICAGO - Back in the spring of 2003, Karen Wilson, then the director of the Oriental Institute on the campus of the University of Chicago, was walking through the Mesopotamian gallery, angrily pointing at one image of an ancient treasure after another.
"I believe that piece is gone," she kept saying as she waved her arms, eyes flashing with every sweep. "Gone."
Wilson was talking about the looting of the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, where most of the original artifacts referenced in the gallery's educational exhibit (designed mostly to teach University of Chicago undergraduates) were held. At the time of
