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About the Buddhas of Bayiman:
They were dynamited and destroyed in March 2001 by the Taliban, on orders from leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were idols. An envoy visiting the United States in the following weeks explained that they were destroyed to protest international aid exclusively reserved for statue maintenance while Afghanistan was experiencing famine, while the Afghan Foreign Minister claimed that the destruction was merely about carrying out Islamic religious iconoclasm. International opinion strongly condemned the destruction of the Buddhas, which in the following years was primarily viewed as an example of the extreme religious intolerance of the Taliban. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan
To me, the destruction of antiquities is a horror. Trying to destroy history is a horror too, and it won't work. Shoving statues that commemorate the battles and the dead of the Civil War down the memory hole won't work either; if anything, I think it's going to inflame passions and create more resentment. Watching that Marxist girl climbing the NC statue and all her college buds cheering and kicking the statue (why didn't they throw shoes?) was awful. Shaking my head.
How do you square your opinion with people of colors resentment of the Confederate monuments.