[exDemMom]

I hope that some of the historic sites have not been damaged beyond repair.

I recall, back when we had president Clinton, when the Taliban were threatening to destroy some ancient statues of Buddha in Afghanistan. American college students, showing a level of worldliness and sophistication outdone only by today’s college students, engaged in a letter-writing campaign begging the Taliban to spare the statues. Of course, the Taliban took great glee in destroying the statues and disseminating pictures of the rubble.

I’m not sure if the Taliban morphed into Isis, or if Isis is a completely separate group. Either way, the goal to kill innocents and destroy priceless artifacts is a feature of Islamists. This is why the Islamists must be destroyed.

I saw an article last night about a woman raised as a Muslim, who was mutilated the way they mutilate little girls, and who went on to renounce Islam when she was 30. She said that the only real option for peace with Islam is to utterly destroy it in order to make room for a modern, civilized Islam to take hold. I cannot disagree.

[palmer]

engaged in a letter-writing campaign begging the Taliban to spare the statues.

Statues need safe spaces too.

[Sicon]

"the only real option for peace with Islam is to utterly destroy it in order to make room for a modern, civilized Islam to take hold. I cannot disagree."

I can. Once you've done humanity the service of destroying islam, why would you want a "modern, civilized islam"?

"Modern islam" is just 7th century islam with cell phones and nukes. And there's no such thing as "civilized islam". Islam is a fanatical cult which is 100% antithetical to civilization.

[mad_as_he$$]

Sorry but the historical sites have been systemically blown up and leveled with heavy equipment. It is all pretty much gone.

[mac_truck]

I’m not sure if the Taliban morphed into Isis, or if Isis is a completely separate group.

My understanding is the Taliban and ISIS are two separate entities and in areas where the two groups overlap like Afghanistan, they'll fight. Both are Sunni extremists but that's where the similarity ends.

ISIS is more like an off shoot of Al Qaeda with some Sadaam Hussein hardliners thrown in.