Just a correction: I didn't say Donald dropped a nuclear weapon - Donald dropped the Mother of All Bombs on Afghanistan; it is the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used by the US.

This is not the sub to debate the Middle East, but suffice it to say that if anyone wants to know more about why the fuck the US is constantly killing innocents in the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa, or helping kill innocents there, or funding the killing of innocents there, a book called "The Israel Lobby & US Foreign Policy" is a great place to start.

Its authors, two giants in their fields, are John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt, at the time of writing the Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

"The Israel Lobby & US Foreign Policy" should be required reading for every American and every citizen of countries America sucks into its military adventures.

And, to my mind, as someone who has been stuck in the middle of one, war is a feminist issue, because beyond the killing, there's the rape and the utter destruction of the lives of the most vulnerable: women & children. As feminists, we can help other women by working for peace.