Stevieslaw: U.S. makes boom-boom
The U.S. military dropped a 22,000 pound bomb on Islamic State forces in Afghanistan yesterday and the news media lost its lunch. Our local newspaper, the Centre Daily Times, picked up an article by the Washington Post which described in great detail the “Mother of all bombs,” and its relatives—including the infamous ‘daisy cutter,” used in Vietnam to make instant helicopter pads in the jungle. CNN, FOX, and MSNBC have assembled panels of former Pentagon officials to discuss the bomb and its variety of impacts for at least the next 48 hours.
In related news, a U.S. airstrike in Syria, called in on the wrong coordinates, killed as many friendly fighters as the mother of all bombs killed militants in Afghanistan—making the week’s bombing campaign essentially a draw. The Syrian government, taking the new Trump doctrine to heart, has returned to killing innocent men, women and children using only conventional weapons—which is apparently fine with everyone.
And these fucking wars go on and on and on.