An attempt to destroy a country's history is the greatest vandalism that any society can carry out. It's bad enough when a conquering enemy tries it but when it is carried out in the name of religion by the orders of bigoted hatefilled individuals who belong to the country's own people it is so much more sad. I suppose the next thing is to restart the calendar as the present one numbered from the birth of Christ must also be wrong. Yes, I know Islam dates the calendar from the birth of Mohammed but in dealing with the rest of the world, the Taliban must be aware of the Gregorian model. To pinch a phrase from Spiro Agnew the vandals could be regarded as "the hysterical hypochondriacs of history."