Friday, April 14, 2017

Donnie's Dud


In 2015, while he was a candidate for the Rethuglican nomination, incompetent military genius Donald "Rump" Trump promised that he'd "bomb the shit out of ISIS." After-action assessments by the U.S. military on yesterday's attack on an ISIS facility in Afganistan which used the massive GBU-43 "Mother of All Bombs" indicate that 3,600 360 36 ISIS members were killed. Given the bomb's $16 million pricetag, that's $450,000 per ISIS fighter in crude cost/benefit terms.* As the Guardian observes:
"Until now, the MOAB had been something of a very costly white elephant...Thursday evening’s strike against what amounts to a handful of largely lightly armed Isis fighters in a crude tunnel system seems unlikely to change that assumption."
At that rate, we'd better produce a few thousand more GBU-43s. Getting tired of all this winning yet?

* Later estimates place the dead at 94, making the cost per ISIS fighter at $170,000.