If a flight of tomahawk missiles on their way into Syria are already beautiful, how can you possibly find the right adjectives to express the heart-stopping loveliness of the biggest non-nuclear bomb in US history blasting a mile-wide stretch of Afghanistan and … stopping a lot of hearts? Can even the poetry of Brian Williams express the trouser-tenting wonderfulness of an explosion at that scale?
No. For this, you have to go to the experts.
Yes. This is certainly what America is all about. Blowing the holy crap out of the world at $16 million a shot. And the real joyful, Americaness of the moment can’t be appreciated without the, who else, Toby Keith musical accompaniment provided by Fox.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has this to say:
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