Well, the west (you know, those "evil, colonialist, world police"?) already does a lot to protect people from terrorism already, but protecting people from terr

Well, the west (you know, those "evil, colonialist, world police"?) already does a lot to protect people from terrorism already, but protecting people from terrorism is quite a lot more costly and morally complicated (well, some people manage to conflate "combatting terrorism" with "racially motivated colonialism" anyway) than protecting artifacts. Protecting artifacts is intractable for reasons of international law and national sovereignty.