The price of MOAB

Published April 13, 2017 6:58pm ET



America’s military leaders, in their infinite wisdom, saw fit to use a MOAB — “Massive Ordnance Air Blast,” also known as the “Mother of All Bombs” — in Afghanistan against ISIS forces.

One benefit of having Donald Trump as president is that now it suddenly matters how much it costs to bomb foreign countries. The Twitterverse, thanks to Russian defector Edward Snowden, quickly came up with a price tag of $314 million.

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