How huge and majestic they were.

Considering the magnitude and historical significance of the Statues, I think that with or without helping Al Qeda, the Taliban really needed to go!

I believe one of the goals of the new government is to restore these and other religious sites to their state before the Taliban took over.

That would be great.

Originally Posted by Missileer

I don't remember how much damage the imbeciles did before they stopped. I need to go back and read up on it.

Were those the same imbeciles that were funded by the Americans, British and Saudi Arabia to get the Russians out of the country?

The creation of the Taliban was "actively encouraged by the ISI and the CIA," according to Selig Harrison, an expert on U.S. relations with Asia. "The United States encouraged Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to support the Taliban, certainly right up to their advance on Kabul," adds respected journalist Ahmed Rashid. When the Taliban took power, State Department spokesperson Glyn Davies said that he saw "nothing objectionable" in the Taliban's plans to impose strict Islamic law, and Senator Hank Brown, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia, welcomed the new regime: "The good part of what has happened is that one of the factions at last seems capable of developing a new government in Afghanistan." "The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis. There will be Aramco [the consortium of oil companies that controlled Saudi oil], pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that," said another U.S. diplomat in 1997.

Yes, the same imbeciles that were destroyed forever by the American and British militaries as well.

Well we didn't do a very good job of it did we?

Yes you did.

Yes, the same imbeciles that were destroyed forever by the American and British militaries as well. Well they are still running around un Afghanistan, I suppose nobody has told them that they have been destroyed.

Originally Posted by Welshwarrior

Yes, the same imbeciles that were destroyed forever by the American and British militaries as well. Well they are still running around un Afghanistan, I suppose nobody has told them that they have been destroyed.

I think the people of Afghanistan told them loud and clear when they went to the polls in large numbers and confirmed they want a democratically elected government that is still in power and gets stronger everyday.