16, April 2017 Afghanistan
Bombing
In an effort to demonstrate his toughness and
decisiveness, Trump authorized the US military to drop “the mother of all
bombs” on Afghanistan. What a despicable way of describing an instrument of
mass killing which will surely intensify hostility towards the US and prolong
the conflict. Why not call the bomb “the father of all bombs”? – after all it
is invariably men who wage war.
Why are we continuing to wage
on the Afghans traumatized by decades of war.
The 21,600-pound bomb
reportedly unleashed an explosion equivalent to 11 tons of TNT
with a mile-wide blast radius. The U.S. war in Afghanistan is the longest war
in U.S. history, extending into its 16th year and has been a monumental
failure. The war hawks have been empowered by the Trump administration and
seem to have abandoned diplomacy in favor of brute force.
Firepower will never subdue ISIS or the Taliban into submission. More and more innocent
people will die which will surely enrage and radicalize more people to join
their ranks. Prior to the latest US bombing, the Afghan people have opposed
ISIS and the Taliban terrorist attacks and suicide bombings in Afghanistan and
Pakistan. The latest US bombing will
further traumatize the Afghans especially the children. Decades of war has reduced Afghanistan to an
environmental and ecological disaster.
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