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"Thanks rdl6989. Tried to find a topic on the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues using Google but didn't find anything specific."
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Now that computer technology has advance so much.....it has become harder to find both sides of an issue......years ago you use to be able to get a Bio now it is more like a resume....
Try Dan Rather bio and what do you get?????
It seems like only the left agenda is reveal positive and the everything else is losted.....or just the negative on the right!
I wonder if only Lexus Nexus (sp)you can get all sides....but the common man can't aford LN!
Of all these report you gather.....but how accurate are they an is for someone else agenda......
I love the subjects but get really disappointed that it seems agenda driven.....
My advice is to put in your library as many copies of history books before 1940 be it secular or religious, Great Works, 1911 Britannica encyclopedia, Philosophy before those things were/are edit or revised...
Maybe someone who has the ability will make these things availible on CD or what ever new storage method!
The guy makes his living writing books on dangerous places.
Any way, talking with the then-Taliban leader, the "reason" for the destruction of the Buddhas was to show the
Western aid providers that "stone statues are nothing compared to the needs of the people".
Obviously, their culture didn't keep up with the intended use of a soccer stadium, let alone "modern" aid in the form
of vacinations, etc.
Google isn't what it used to be, I don't know why. I used to love Google.