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Originally posted by Colin
Labret,
The Taliban should have picked up some history books instead of that damned Koran.
They might have read such classics as the following.
In 149 BC, the Romans ordered the Carthaginians to leave their city and settle inland. Thinking they could stand up to the mighty Romans, the Carthaginians refused. The Romans sent in their legions and beat the Carthaginians down - they burned their city to the ground, the survivors were enslaved and Carthage annexed. Carthage would never rise again.
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What in the hell does that have to do with anything?
And its nice how you left out the story before and the story after, even though I have no idea what you are getting at. That was a very long, very drawn out, very complicated conflict that people have spent lifetimes studying. And I see no even remotely similar resemblance at all to what just happened in Afghanistan. Nor how it is applicable to the conversation or argument at hand.