{"id":71912,"date":"2017-05-07T15:06:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T19:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71912"},"modified":"2017-05-07T15:06:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T19:06:41","slug":"the-pope-doesnt-like-moab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71912","title":{"rendered":"The Pope doesn&#8217;t like MOAB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the UK&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/pope-criticises-us-military-using-202800205.html\">Independent<\/a> the Pope doesn&#8217;t like that we call the  Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb (MOAB) the Mother Of All Bombs;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pontiff\u2019s comments \u2014 referencing the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb (MOAB), the largest bomb in the American arsenal \u2014 came during a speech he gave to an audience of students, and just weeks before he is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was ashamed when I heard the name,\u201d the pope said. \u201cA mother gives life and this one gives death, and we call this device a mother. What is happening?\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess the pontiff is joining in with the snowflakes who see secret hand signals and &#8220;dog whistle&#8221; meanings everywhere. <\/p>\n<p>The nickname for the bomb came from Saddam Hussein who called the first Persian Gulf War the &#8220;Mother of all Battles&#8221; when he thought that he was going to triumph over the allies arrayed against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the UK&#8217;s Independent the Pope doesn&#8217;t like that we call the Massive Ordnance Air &hellip; <a title=\"The Pope doesn&#8217;t like MOAB\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71912\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pope doesn&#8217;t like MOAB<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}