US drops largest non-nuclear weapon on Afghanistan: A crime against humanity

[TexasTowelie]

[font color=330099]I'm presenting this article from the World Socialist Web Site to provide a differing perspective on the recent bomb drop in Afghanistan. Some points in the article and other points are not. The article also serves a role as propaganda. Read it, think about it and make of it as you will.[/font]

The US military’s dropping of the largest non-nuclear weapon in its arsenal on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border Thursday is a crime against humanity. Even as the US government and the mass media were engaged in a lying propaganda campaign denouncing Syria and Russia for the use of poison gas, the American military was positioning the monstrous weapon—the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB)—for use in Afghanistan.

While the Pentagon has released few details about the impact of the bombing, one can be certain that the total number of deaths resulting from the dropping of the MOAB is a massive multiple of the number killed in the alleged Syrian gas attack, assuming—and this is by no means certain—that the gas attack even took place.

Seventy-two years after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, American imperialism has proven once again that it is the most ruthless and criminal force on the planet.

The use of the MOAB has implications that extend beyond Afghanistan. It demonstrates—and this is, in fact, the principal aim of the attack—that there are no restraints on what the US military is prepared to do in pursuit of the interests of American imperialism.

Read more: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/14/pers-a14.html

[radical noodle]

1. Not a fan of the bomb drop

but I think their assumptions may well be wrong. The last I heard, there were 31 people killed, but the caves and tunnels were demolished. Can we believe that info? I don't know, but I'm pretty sure the World Socialist Web Site doesn't know either. I'm also pretty sure that "American imperialism" is not even close to the most ruthless and criminal force on the planet.

[TexasTowelie]

2. The American imperialism portion of the article

fit under the propaganda category.

[radical noodle]

3. Yep...

There's a lot of that going around lately!

[weydowner]

4. how many?

31? 34? 36? I wonder how they can be so exact since there aren't an army of reporters there.
And - apparently - there is a massive system of caves.
And the US army is not too good at casualty figures even in big cities.
And why have these thing been languishing in Florida (or wherever) for most of this century.
Do they have expiry dates? Has Donald annoyed as many dictators of the world as he has allies so the option of selling the damned things is moot?

So many important questions. So few answers.
What is new?

[shadowmayor]

5. Now it's 90 plus?

WTF? We're supposed to believe the whole lot of them were "bad" guys. And the tunnels were too difficult to assault. What in the hell are we still doing in Afghanistan other than killing people? America weeps when the TV tells us about the poor people in Mosul or Aleppo but when our bombs fall on people it's just one big shrug. And god forbid those folks might want to run like hell and become refugees! Everything, and I mean everything that is reported about the wars we are conducting is pure bullshit. After I returned from Iraq at the end of 05, the media was trying to decide if there was indeed a civil war going on in Iraq. Fox was tying itself in knots denying the obvious. The civil war was full-on by the end of spring in 2005. By the time we left, it was game on. And we orchestrated the whole goddamned mess.

Anybody who cheers the dropping of bombs or launching of missiles is a developmentally challenged fuckstick - especially when they are employed to be television "reporters" like tweety or bri-wi or any dozen of the shitheads at fox and cnn.