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VigilantG

(374 posts)
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 04:05 AM Apr 2017

How is success determined, Trump? [View all]


(CNN)In its second major display of military might in one week, the US dropped its most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS positions in a remote part of Afghanistan.

Afghan officials said 36 militants were killed in the strike in Nangarhar province, near the Pakistan border. The US military previously estimated ISIS had 600 to 800 fighters operating in the area.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/14/asia/afghanistan-isis-moab-bomb/index.html

I am no genius or military expert, but Trump is going to tell me that we used the biggest non-nuke bomb we had to date to kill 36 ISIS fighters at what cost? How many millions of dollars? In exchange for how many more enemies?

I believe he proved otherwise in Syria today by killing approximately 18 of those were trying to help for less, much less the financial price of the mother of all bombs display--by ACCIDENT!

Kudos, Pres. Trump! Kudos!
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