The War on Syria and “The Death of Civilization”: The Assassination of Dr Khaled al-Assad, Guardian of Palmyra.

By Felicity Arbuthnot “On Freedom’s tree there rained a withering blight,  Glory to proud Palmyra sighed adieu, And o’er her shrines Destruction’s angel flew.” (Nicholas Michell, 1807-1880.) At a meeting of the Foreign Ministers in Cairo in September 2002 the then Secretary General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa warned US President George W. Bush…