I may not be the holder of all great knowledge but I don’t live in a cave either.
There are valid reasons that only 3 countries in the whole world recognized them. One of the most admirable aspects of the Taliban was there support for the mass murder OBL and his group of killers. To admire the Taliban is to admire OBL and it is a fact that there is no small support for OBL, probably a majority.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
The Taliban were widely criticized by Western countries for their oppression of women. Women were strictly limited in their ability to work in public places.
Although the Taliban claimed that the education of girls in rural Afghanistan was increasing, a UNESCO report said that there was "a whopping 65% drop in their enrollment. In schools run by the Directorate of Education, only 1 per cent of the pupils are girls. The percentage of female teachers, too, has slid from 59.2 per cent in 1990 to 13.5 per cent in 1999."
Minority groups, especially Hazaras, were brutally persecuted and oppressed by the Taliban. More than 15,000 Hazaras were killed in central highlands known as Hazarajat, their women were enslaved and later sold to tribal leaders in Pakistan. Taliban leader On Genocide of Hazaras:
"The policy of the Taliban is to exterminate the Hazaras." Maulawi Mohammed Hanif, Taliban Commander announcing their policy to a crowd of 300 people summoned to a mosque (after killing 15,000 Hazaras people in a day). "Hazaras are not Muslims. You can kill them. It is not a sin." Mullah Manon Niazi, Taliban Governor of Mazar-e Sharif speaking to a crowd in a mosque after the fall of Mazara-e-Sharif city in 1998.
Hazaras were brutally massacred thoroughout Afghanistan. The two well known accounted by Human Rights Watch arein Yakaogang, January 2001 and at Robatak Pass in May of 2000.
Al-Qaeda-trained fighters known as the 055 Brigade were integrated with the Taliban army between 1997 and 2001. The Taliban and bin Laden had very close connections, which were formalized by a marriage of one of bin Laden's sons to Omar's daughter.
I see no difference between praising the Taliban and praising terrorism.