What an erroneus objective. It essentially would amount to wiping a religion or philospohy accepted by a large number of people from the face of the earth.But if you think about it, we succeeded in rebuilding Japan after WWII, governing it for a while before handing sovereignty back to its people. I think that was the same objective for Afghanistan, had it not been for one administration’s lack of focus.
And comparing the Taliban with the Japanese is laughable, at best.