Taliban Continue Return to Stone Age Tour

Suspected Taliban gunmen destroyed a coed primary school in the main southern Afghan city Sunday, first tying up two security guards before setting the buildings on fire, officials said.

The attack in Kandahar was the latest in a spate of assaults that have forced many schools to close. The insurgents claim that educating girls is against Islam and they even oppose government-funded schools for boys because they teach subjects besides religion.

Do the Taliban actually think that people are going to be attracted to their worldview if they keep killing academics, and seeking to turn the country into a bunch of illiterates? Apparently so.

700 students were taught at this school, and builders hope to have the building rebuilt by March.

Besides, the Taliban can't seem to beat US and Afghan forces in a straight up fight, so they're engaging in terrorism and killing schoolteachers and blowing up schools.