The Futile Vanities of Trump’s “Mother of All Bombs”

found online by Raymond

 
From Brij Khindaria, Foreign Affairs Columnist at The Moderate Voice:

President Donald Trump’s “mother or all bombs” – the world’s biggest non-nuclear weapon – dropped on remote mountains in unfortunate Afghanistan has pulverized rocks, shattered local ecology and destroyed the habitat of rare animal and other species.

It completely shattered everything in a one-mile radius and has affected life in an almost 30-mile periphery.

It may also have obliterated 36 enemy combatants, who under unilateral US rules are not soldiers and, therefore, deserve no consideration.

But far from justifying his triumphant claims of success, the lesson the monster bomb has reinforced is that American military and economic power however fearsome does not bring desired foreign policy results.

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