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MOAB vs ISIS. Sweden vs Sweden. @SebGorka Deputy Assistant to POTUS.

“Trump has ceded responsibilities to his military commanders, and it appears he’s paying little attention to operational details,” said Derek Chollet, who was the assistant secretary of defense for international affairs in the Obama administration. “Here’s the question,” Mr. Chollet added. “Trump takes great pride in his authorizing the military when things go well, but one wonders if he’ll have the same sense of shared accountability when things go wrong, as they inevitably do.” Thursday’s strike in Afghanistan — using a 20,000-pound bomb that cost $16 million, and more than $300 million to develop — hit a tunnel complex in the Achin district of Nangarhar Province, according to a statement from the United States military in Afghanistan. The statement did not say how many militants were killed, or whether the bombing caused any civilian casualties.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/world/asia/moab-mother-of-all-bombs-afghanistan.html

Why is it that the Swedish police is having such difficulties in sending back illegals? One reason is chronic understaffing: in Stockholm, 20 border police officers are expected to search for 4,000 missing immigrants, an impossible task. Another is the lack of political support. Four years ago, a campaign to identify illegal immigrants in the capital, including ID checks in its subway, was met by huge protests from opinion makers and politicians, who argued that internal immigration controls were inherently immoral or even racist. Sweden’s Social Democratic minister of justice, Morgan Johansson – chairman of the Parliamentary Justice Committee at the time – even claimed the government should give the police directives to chase criminals instead of undocumented migrants. ‘Only four per cent of home burglaries are solved,’ he said. ‘If I were to decide, the police would prioritise such crimes instead.’ Thirdly, Sweden’s previous centre-right government, led by the Moderate Party, introduced reforms giving illegal immigrants additional financial incentives to stay in the country, including the right to tax-funded healthcare and schooling. They also brought in a somewhat schizophrenic approach to the problem: those being hunted by police could, at the same time, be granted welfare payments to support their stay in Sweden. Akilov is a father of four. If his children are in Sweden – which is not yet known – it means that the family has the right to live on taxpayers’ money, something that has outraged many Swedes. But the Moderate Party appears to have forgotten its role in this mess. Instead, its current leader, Anna Kinberg Batra, tweeted on Monday: ‘If one is not allowed to be in Sweden, one should be sent away. If that had worked, the 39-year-old [Akilov] would not have been on Drottninggatan on Friday.’ https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/04/sweden-divided-country-wake-stockholm-attack/