He ordered the bomb to be used for the same reason he does EVERYTHING, namely, to please his constituents. To (attempt to) prove that he’s big and strong and tough. He did it for appearances–HIS appearance. To make a splash. He has no goal, no plan, no policy. He has never had any and never will. He can only think one minute ahead. He never makes any decision with an eye to effectiveness. He wouldn’t know or recognize effectiveness if it grabbed him by the balls. Oh, wait–
Trump finds out that dealing with North Korea is not easy.
I really think he believes that no one before him has ever realized these things. Every time he decides something is hard, it’s like he and no one else has figured this out. It’s just mind boggling how he could be so uninformed about everything.
Well, well, what do you know. Trump’s MOAB strike in Afghanistan was on fucking point. 36 ISIS foot soldiers were killed in the blast. Trump meant it when he said he would bomb the shit out of ISIS.
No, dismissing your claim because of your views relevant to your argument is not an ad hominem attack.
Saying, for example, “Your claim about Trump is untrustworthy because you’re one of those stupid ground-beef-sandwich fans” would be an ad hominem attack. Saying “Your claim about Trump is untrustworthy because you’re a Trump apologist” is not.
We get a lot of special-snowflake Trumpologists passing through here who like to claim that any criticism of their positions is an “ad hominem attack” and therefore illegitimate. But that’s just another of the “alternative facts” that they tend to be so fond of.
But what was the military objective in dropping the bomb? Did the generals sit around and decide that killing 3 dozen low level cannon fodder foot soldiers would be a major step in defeating ISIS and then take expensive steps to achieve that goal? Somehow I don’t think so.
Or did they want to destroy the extensive tunnel complex? Now, that might be a worthwhile goal. But did they? Or did they fail and redefine the mission as a success based on the results?