Why the american embassy in baghdad is visible from space

We can look into the past for answers.
Human ambition has been straightforward for thousands of years.

Monument building is a basic human activity.

As civilisations grow wealthier, the leaders build large monuments.

The large monuments are to demonstrate the leaders power, to himself
(they are men), to his people, and to his enemies.

And like fruit on tree, the way to make a civilisation produce large and
beautiful monuments, is to put it under immense stress and pressure.

Resource shortages, threat of invasion seem to create these monuments as
if the civilisations knew they were about to die.

Unfortunately, the largest monuments are the last monuments a
civilisation builds before collapsing.

Its as if the king is a condemned prisoner and says, since I am going to
die anyway, I don't have to worry about the future, so I will use all my
resources to realize my dream - which is to build the biggest monument
the world has ever seens.

What are some of these monuments?

The great wall of china
The heads of rapa nui
The pyramids of meso america
The pyramids of egypt
The castles of europe
The stone circles in england and brittany
The giant buddhas of asia
The american embassy in baghdad