SHOOT THE LOOTERS! says Donny George according to MSNBC. And according to the Daily Telegraph archaeologist Elizabeth Stone concurs: helicopters should fly over sites being looted and kill some of the looters. (Both via Francis Deblauwe on the IraqCrisis list)

This is a bit too bloody minded for me. How about if we just bombard them with refined putrescine? (Hey, it worked in Neal Stephenson's Zodiac.)