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To: 353FMG
If Afghanistan were miraculously transformed into the Switzerland of Central Asia...

It needed no miracle -just a sound religion and a wise king. Here he is: Menander II, under whom the Hellenistic Kingdom of Bactria was very close to being the Switzerland of Central Asia.


9 posted on 09/29/2008 6:31:26 PM PDT by John Locke
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To: John Locke

Didn’t Menander convert to Buddhism? What the Taliban tried to make us forget was that Afghanistan was a Buddhist country for 900 years (200 B.C. - 700 A.D.), before Islam barged its way in.


13 posted on 10/03/2008 2:20:58 PM PDT by Berosus (I already have a Messiah, I'm looking for a new president.)
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