Militants blow up girls school in Pakistan

Exhibit # 1001 in the continuing catalogue of reasons why the war on Islamic fundamentalism needs to continue being waged at a high level, in Iraq and Afghanistan, and wherever else we can get at them. The article concludes "Some Islamic hardliners are opposed to the education of women." Talk about your typical understatement from the AP! I would say most if not all "Islamic hardliners" are opposed to the education of women, and I'd be curious to hear about any that support women's education, other than teaching them how to be a martyr. Also yet another reason why the Left intelligentsia are so wrong about the War on Terror. They think they can reason with these people. The only reasonable thing about their actions is that they planned them to happen at night, when the school was unoccupied, which is actually surprisingly reasonable as far as these types go.
You'd think that your typical feminist could really get behind the idea of women's liberation in the Middle East as the next great civil rights struggle of our time, but they would rather sit around their women's studies departments and discuss how evil George W. Bush is for making war against cultures that we shouldn't "Westernize", rather than applying their energy towards a positive course of action that might actually improve someone's life elsewhere in the world. Meanwhile, Iran is busying lashing and executing homosexuals while having government sponsored burqa fashion shows ("black sure seems to be the color again this year!"), but we are supposed to sit down and "reason" with them, like they are suddenly going to change their minds about anything.