MOAB Dropped in Afghanistan

[DBTrek]

Well . . . there's no accounting for some folks.

I'm non-interventionist.
Most the DCF refugees are as well.
And regardless of the poll, we elected the less hawkish/globalist of the two presidential candidates.

[Smitty-48]

WTF do you want from us, man? We're non-interventionist. But our government . . . well, those misfit scalawags are imperialist as hell.

Whatchagonnado?

I'm not actually trying to take shots at the USA, I just like to break down the military bafflegab and analyze what they are saying and doing, I don't actually have any beef against the Empire of Liberty, I actually want the Americans to win, but, they can't win, if they don't look things in the face and figure out what is actually working and what's not, I just take that approach, fight to win, I don't have any quarrel with that, that is in the end, what I would prefer, but don't brame me, roundeye, just for saying "meh, dog and pony show", as that's no crime where I come from.

Any situation where I see it to be Vietnam all over again, even if on a smaller scale, but still the same Kobayashi Maru, I would prefer that America just got the fuck out of there, and came at it from another direction, something more effective, but that doesn't mean I'm happy to see America hanging around in a quagmire, I'm the one saying "drop this shit like a hot rock, ain't doing nothing for you, ain't worth even one America boy being dead", that's not America bashing from where I'm sitting, but whatevs, can't please everybody, so I don't even try.

If there was an objective to which I thought a MOAB would be effective, in terms of actually moving the ball down the field towards a win, I would not hesitate to say so, I got nothing against the use of weapons, up to and including hydrogen bombs, but if the target doesn't warrant a hydrogen bomb, if a hydrogen bomb would not be effective, I'd say that too.

That's the thing about Afghanistan, you could literally drop a hydrogen bomb on it, and that still wouldn't win you anything, it's a primitive war amongst a primitive society, it's not really subject to industrial war, and as such, it's better just to move on, because primitive war is not really the US military's thing, the US military should play to its strengths.

Trying to herd got herders with MOAB's, that's a fools errand in the end, I would stick to the big targets and just avoid getting into fights with pygmies altogether, forget the pygmies, particularly when they are pulling the old hiding out accross the border in Cambodia trick, because they're not really all that much of a threat, so its not worth the trouble, alls I'm saying.

Even if you did want to blast some pygmies into the dust, just for the hell of it, once they've scattered, is not the time, you have to wait for them to mass on the battlefield, and then drop the MOAB on them.

[TheReal_ND]

DoD to declassify video of #MOAB (Mother Of All Bombs) dropped on ISIS caves by @USFOR_A. Aiming for tonight. Told it looks like a big cloud

https://twitter.com/jamiejmcintyre
wew, looks like we are gonna see a big boom lads

[Ex-California]

This stuff is a show for domestic consumption.

And a warning for Kim Jong Un?

[Smitty-48]

I'm not against blowing shit up, if you just want to blow shit up for the sake of blowing shit up, but let's find some industrial targets to bomb, that's where the bombs can be effective, bombing primitive societies into the stone age makes no sense, they already live in the stone age, can't bomb them down further at this point, so if bombing for bombings sake is the desire, bomb Iran or something, somebody with something to bomb, there's nothing left to bomb in Afghanistan, you're not even bouncing the rubble, because they don't even have rubble, it's just an empty wasteland and a few goats kicking around, I'm not getting all excited over bombing a bunch of prehistoric rocks, I mean, big whoop.

[Smitty-48]

What I really want to see, is above ground nuclear testing, if you're going to just blow something up where there isn't actually any enemy of consequence around, can we please just go back to bombing Bikini Atoll, with hydrogen bombs?

Because once you've seen Castle Bravo, MOAB don't mean shit, gimme Castle Bravo for crying out loud, if you're just going to bomb for a show, once you've raised the bar to 15 megatons, there's no going back.

[Speaker to Animals]

This stuff is a show for domestic consumption.

And a warning for Kim Jong Un?

There's no point. He's on death ground right now.

[TheReal_ND]

gimme Castle Bravo for crying out loud

Castle Bravo Pepe for you. Damn I need to clean my image folder up.

[Speaker to Animals]

Threats don't work with tubby because he is on death ground. He has to push back and he has nowhere to go now anyway. If he shows weakness, somebody will kill him in a coup.

Tubby saves face or dies, or we all go into a terrible war. There's no alternative for him.

[Smitty-48]

gimme Castle Bravo for crying out loud

Castle Bravo Pepe for you. Damn I need to clean my image folder up.

<sigh> loves me some Castle Bravo, people say "Tsar Bomba!", but fuck Tsar Bomba, it was bigger, but cinematically, it wasn't a better show, the film crews for Castle Bravo, they knew how to stage it, them Rooskies didn't do Tsar Bomba justice, and Novaya Zemlya just doesn't frame it the way the South Pacific does.