"B...b...but...but...Fox News said that Mullah Omar said he ordered the statues to be destroyed due to religious reasons...who cares that I never saw or heard Mullah Omar's statement...who cares that Taliban ambassadar Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi stated at a conference which was recorded, that they were destroyed after Swedish momument experts refused their suggestion to spend towards starving children rather than rebuilding the bamiyans...who cares that the Taliban were in power for five years before the destruction and had no ideological change during these five years....Fox News said Mullah Omar said it so it MUST be true regardless of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary."
As I said before, I don't get my "news" from Fox News anymore than you get it from Fox News. You can keep repeating this nonsense if it makes you feel better, but it doesn't change my
actual position anymore than it changes the
actual facts.
But again, let's assume that Hashemi is right, and telling the truth, and the statutes were destroyed because Swedes wanted to spend their money on the statues rather than help the poor, starving children. That doesn't make the destruction any more palatable or any more reasonable. It only showcases the kind of men Omar and his group are/were: irrational since the destruction of the statues wouldn't have helped advocate the cause of feeding the children. So enough with this bullshit that the Taliban were offended that Swedes wouldn't donate to "end the hunger" campaigns.
Because let's be clear: the Taliban didn't much care about the starving children
anyways. As an excuse it doesn't hold much water. If they really did care, they would have made different decisions after they came into power; instead of denying food aid, they would have welcomed it, and instead of making decisions aimed to plunge Afhganistan further back into the stone age they would have made decisions to help Afghanistan move forward.