Question

March 2001
Last week the Taliban followed through with
its threat to destroy enormous Buddhist figures.
The statues overlooked an ancient Afghani trade
route for 1,700 years. The act was met with
international outrage.
The Taliban is a fundamentalist Islamic
militia. It rose to power and took control of
Afghanistan's government in the last years of the
twentieth century. Its aim is to set up the world's
most pure Islamic state, eradicate crime, and
establish laws. The group condemned the
Buddhist statues as idols; acting on its
interpretation of Islamic teachings, it vowed to
destroy the ancient monuments. (Its acts were
not supported by other Islamic governments,
which recognize the need for religious
tolerance.)
Erasing the pre-Islamic statues is part of the
Taliban's efforts to retell the story of
Afghanistan's past in order to reshape its
present. It has resorted to a Dresden-like
strategy calculated to make both the local
population and the world aware of its intentions.

Dresden was a German city destroyed by the allies in WWII. Which of the following most likely describes the allusion to Dresden?
Dresden was the center for the production of weapons that supported the German war effort.
Dresden was a city rich with old cultural monuments that could not be replaced.
Dresden was the center of commercial and economic development in Germany.

Answer 1

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