Ultimate Taliban lunacy

[McNally, David J. (LNG-MBC)]

Appalling as the destruction of statues in Afghanistan is, I'm surprised
there hasn't been more mention of other instances of
destruction/appropriation of religious or historical artifacts.  Britain
taking and hanging on to the Elgin marbles seems equally wrong, if not as
irreversible, and I'm guessing that a fair number of Native American
artifacts and sites have been destroyed in the US.  Aren't the Taliban's
actions just an extreme example of an all too common insensitivity to other
cultures' values.

David.