You all remember how we were leaving Afghanistan years ago?
Well, no.
US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/13/politics/afghanistan-isis-moab-bomb/index....
The MOAB is also known as the "mother of all bombs." A MOAB is a 21,600-pound, GPS-guided munition that is America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb.
It is satisfying to be a contrarian and later proved correct. Two previous essays number one and number two dealt with what many feared would be an amplification of the not-so-civil war in Syria, portending to be the start of WW3.
File this in the WTF department. An already overcrowded pigeon hole earns another entry. Before posting this, what the heck are we doing with labeling frenzy? Identity politics to the max. Alt-Right, Anti-Fa, centrist, neoLiberal, NeoConservative, Progressive, Regressive, Depressive. Where does it end? Are we c99ers Alt-Left, marginalized Free-thinkers, burned-out Berners? Can't tell the players without the labels.
It seems the 'red line' in Syria has gotten very thin.
It's not surprising that the news media loved Trump's new pointless war against the Syrian government.
America's foreign policy is built upon simplistic and childish assumptions.
There are many ways to demonstrate this, but the most obvious and direct way is to ask the question, "...and then what?"
The bloody carnage of the last 16 years across N. Africa, the Levant, through Iraq to the borders of India has brought misery to hundreds of millions. The recent war crimes in Syria at the summit of the crimes committed.
The Global arms trade supplying both sides for profit.
Torture pardoned.
Regime change by various nefarious means.
The bombing of hospitals.
The use of banned weapons.
The crime that is pre-emptive war.
The murder of innocents.
"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered...A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
- Martin Luther King, 1965
Some in the media are reporting that Trump handed Merkel a "bill" for 300 billion for U.S./NATO war and imperialism spending. The White House is saying that is not true but it doesn't matter, the narrative is out there and the people are swallowing it.
