The cretinous slime (aka taliban) say that she was targeted not because she wanted education, but because she didn't support their jihadi B.S. Any port in a storm for these psychos.

And you have the governments in the region unwilling to condemn the action for fear of taliban retribution.

The taliban have it built into their name: they need to be banned.

And I'm curious: how, *exactly* do you "liberalize" governments? Even when given a "democratic choice" the sheeple of most of the ME elect another offshoot of islam (Israel being a holdout, for obvious reasons). However great democracy is, you can't force a government on people (have we not yet learned that lesson?) and if they elect more of the same, it's just a never ending cycle.

Not that war is the answer, either.