Scum of the Earth

In the largest battle in the Afghan theater since 2001, this is the kind of scum of the earth our military has to deal with...

From the Associated Press, Sunday, February 21, 2010 -

"On Sunday, Marine squads in the western section of Marjah used missiles to destroy a large, abandoned school compound that had been booby-trapped with explosives in Marjah. The school had been shut down two years earlier by the Taliban, residents told Marines.

"They said they would kill the father of any child that went to school," said farmer Maman Jan, deploring that his six children were illiterate."