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Bombs Away

Mother of All Bombs, technically called Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), was dropped on an alleged cave system used by IS network in Afghanistan by the US. The scale of destruction caused by the Bomb is still being assessed. The US General in charge of Afghanistan claimed that it is a precision bomb and all precaution was taken to rule out civilian casualties.
War is morally wrong. Killing is wrong. What is worst is that in the name of protecting US interests, hundreds are killed around the world without the due process of law being adhered to. The efficacy of US weapons and the intelligence that is used to take out the enemy is questionable. Take the issue of WMD and the silence about its existence once the war in Iraq was won. Thousands of lives were lost in the name of destroying WMD, which incidentally was never there in the first place.
The visuals of Tomahawk missiles, destined for Syria, taking off from one of the US destroyers is remarkable. So was the visual of the actual use of MOAB in Afghanistan for the first time ever. Television coverage of war numbs us to the horrors and destruction on the ground. The precision bombing sorties by the USAF look impressive on our television screens but the ground reality is different- people die in these air raids. They may be children, women, military personnel or terrorists. They all add up to human casualties. US was wrong when it dropped the first Atom bomb and US is still wrong when it uses MOAB.


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