No, they'd be dead. I would not complain, but I'd prefer their own people release themselves from the oppresion of their clerics.
I agree. When I mentioned "someone" rounding up the clerics and getting medieval, I didn't mean the US armed forces, but rather the Afghani victims of these clerics. My real point was "medieval" still being centuries ahead of the ideal 7th century Islamist community (unless "medieval" also encompasses that period).