I'm sure I remember a long trail of condemnation of many things that the Taleban imposed on Afghanistan - the destruction of ancient treasures, the repression of women, the suppression of the wishes of the people by force.

But I'm not sure that the evils of the Taleban religious lunatics justified bombing a whole country back into the stone age, and although that bombing brought down the Taleban government, I wonder if it has actually entrenched the Taleban as a symbol of the resistance of the Afghans to the colonial invasions of the UK and US.