A letter from John to the Wise Guys about the "Mother of all Bombs"

Earl introduced a NYT article about the “mother of all bombs” that reignited his dismay over American values in peace and war: “Mother of All Bombs”. I recalled the term used by Saddam Hussein back in the days when Colin Powell was designing our wars. Ladd dug up a reference to that introduction into our English common phraseology. Remember how cautious General Powell and his boss were before even firing a shot?  What a change in GOP attitude since Mr. Trump’s win!

I feel Earl is correct to be dismayed. My personal dismay extends back to the world’s first industrial war, our own Civil War designed by weapons of choice to mow down infantry & cavalry with enormous carnage. In our generation we moved up to the current dance music between D.C., Beijing & Pyongyang that features nuclear bombs as commonplace.  Humans seem to be moving towards a common fate as mass communication leaves no one safe from machine-induced massive, indiscriminant killing.