Sep 20, 2017
When Trump launched Tomahawk missiles on Syria, MSNBC host Brain Williams declared the images ‘beautiful.’ Just one week later, Trump went for more spectacle, dropping the largest non-nuclear weapon in the US arsenal on a cave complex in Afghanistan, an act of violence so indiscriminate and disproportionate that analysts struggled to find any rationale that could resemble a coherent military strategy. Because there was no strategy - the megatonnage is the message. Mass communication through bombs.
Naomi Klein, No is Not Enough