#What_Kind_of_Maniacs 

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آیا_این_کشور_را_اداره_می کنند؟# ':

#Are_Running_This_Country?': 

وابستگان_در_پنتاگون_در_سال_نو#

#Pentagon_Rings_in_New_Year 

  درباره_ریختن_بمبهای_عظیم_بر_روی_سر_مردم_شوخی_می کنند#!!

#With_Joke_About_Dropping_Massive_Bombs_on_People

"Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you [Stratcom], the stoic guardians of several thousand nuclear missiles who definitely don't think raining death and destruction from above is some kind of joke."

"خانم ها و آقایان، من به شما [استرتکام] را ارائه می دهم، نگهبانان چند هزار موشک هسته ای که قطعا فکر نمی کنند که باران مرگ و تخریب از بالا، نوعی شوخی است".

by

Jon Queally, staff writer

Tuesday, January 01, 2019

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/01/what-kind-maniacs-are-running-country-

pentagon-rings-new-year-joke-about-dropping?

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AB-2 Spirit stealth bomber as shown in STRATCOM's New Year video. (Photo: 

Twitter / US Strategic Command)

While people across the world celebrated the dawning of the New Year overnight, the

 U.S. military thought it would be funny to celebrate and make light of one of the 

things they do best: dropping massive bombs on people and places.

'Oops, bad call,' says the bros responsible for civilization-ending nuclear weaponry." 
—Derek Johnson, Global Zero

In a since-deleted, U.S. Strategic Command

 (StratCom), which controls the nation's strategic 

missile systems and coordinates offensive nuclear

 capabilities worldwide joked that while people in

New York City enjoyed the dropping of "the big

 ball" during the countdown to midnight, "we are

 ready to drop something much, much bigger."

Beneath the message was a video (see below), as

 the New York Times describes it, of "a B-2 stealth

 bomber soaring across the sky before releasing two GPS-guided bombs that 

exploded into a giant ball of fire after hitting the ground below."

While Stratcom deleted the tweet after about three hours—issuing an apology that the

 message "was in poor taste & does not reflect our values"—plenty of people had 

already taken screenshots of the message:

Among the reactions of outrage on social media, Walter Schaub, former head of the

Office of Government Ethics, simply asked: "What kind of maniacs are running this

country?"