Lord Byron’s poem The Destruction of Sennacherib begins with the line, “The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold.” My friend Paul Thigpen makes the link between the warlords of the Islamic State (IS) and their historic predecessors, the warlike Assyrians. Two ancient civilizations jockeyed for power in what is now the nation of
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Published on August 10, 2014 10:18