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'Mother of All Bombs' Is Trump's Mother of All Messages
It's hard to justify the use of such a rare weapon like the MOAB on a relatively minor enemy. The real aim with the attack in Afghanistan was to send a message
As statements go, few say more than a 10-ton bomb. In this case, when it's being dropped on a foreign battlefield on the orders of a new president who campaigned on an isolationist platform, the GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast, better known as MOAB or the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used operationally, is a message designed to send shockwaves much further afield than Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province.
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