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| General Mattis defends use of MOAB in Afghanistan |
| 2017-04-22 |
| [Wash Times] Defense Secretary James Mattis said Thursday the decision to drop the "mother of all bombs" on Islamic State targets in eastern Afghanistan was a deafening signal to American enemies and allies alike that Washington will pull no punches against the international terror group. Up until the April 13 strike in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, Mr. Mattis was receiving almost daily battlefield updates on clashes between U.S., local forces and those tied to the Afghan faction of the terror group, he told reporters in Egypt. "There was no surprise in terms of the effect of that [strike] at all," Mr. Mattis said Thursday. "The battle was going on, and we were going to use what was necessary to break ICIER. And we’ve made that very clear in every theater where we’re up against ISIS." Mr. Mattis declined to comment on the number of enemy killed in the attack, saying he did not want to equate success or defeat "by quantifying the number of enemy killed on the battlefield," citing the "corrosive effect of that metric" going back to the Vietnam War. Over 90 members of Afghan ISIS cell, dubbed Islamic State in Iraq and Syria-Khorasan province or ISIS-K, were killed, according to local reports. The mission has proved controversial in Kabul, with former President Hamid Karzai sharply condemning the use of such a powerful explosive on Afghan territory. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 "Defending" only feeds the Leftist narrative. but in an increasingly PC world, it must, unfortunately, be done. We are very lucky the bombing of Dresden occurred when it did, as it assisted in buying us a few good decades. |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2017-04-22 20:04 |
| #1 "Why not, baby?" |
| Posted by: Skidmard 2017-04-22 01:51 |