As was widely reported yesterday, a MOAB was dropped in Afghanistan in order to combat ISIS (Victory Girl Kim covered it, along with the Left’s reaction, here). While left-wing Twitter moaned and cried about anything and everything connected to a bomb, they seemed to miss the entire point of why the bomb was used on ISIS right now.

Pregent explained that ISIS fighters in Afghanistan were starting to use the massive tunnel complex that Al Qaeda used starting back in 2001, when U.S. forces were deployed the country.

“They used the same tunnel complex for bin Laden to escape to Pakistan,” Pregent said. “The Haqqani network, a terrorist organization out of Pakistan, uses it to bring in lethal aid. So you have these organizations like Al Qaeda, the Haqqani group, the Taliban and now ISIS using a tunnel complex to kill Americans in the past.”

He said it’s difficult to use precision strikes on such a complicated system of caves, canyons and tunnels, so a massive bomb like the MOAB is a much more effective option.

.@MPPregent on use of MOAB in Afghanistan: "This weapon is used as an area-denial weapon. It keeps [terrorists] from using it." #Tucker pic.twitter.com/HH9Q9KxOhV

— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 14, 2017

Pregent also tweeted out a picture to illustrate what it means when experts talk about a “tunnel complex.”

I'll be on w/ @TuckerCarlson tonight to talk the M.O.A.B. hit on the same cave complexes Bin Laden & AQSL used to escape to Pakistan in 2001 pic.twitter.com/ElvCb1FdoL

— Michael P Pregent (@MPPregent) April 13, 2017

And let’s not forget that this option has been on the table for a while… and the Obama administration put it there.

Obama admin gave top American general in Afghanistan permission to use MOAB against Taliban & ISIS in January 2016 https://t.co/CSckpXNpt5 pic.twitter.com/YOaCnLa8v1

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 13, 2017

Planning for the MOAB strike dates back to the Obama administration, per @CBSDavidMartin https://t.co/W9U8TTbKWg

— Stefan Becket (@becket) April 13, 2017

The big question was if the United States going to take ISIS seriously – and we absolutely must – would we rather use bombs, or boots on the ground?

Michael Waltz: "If we had not sent in the MOAB, it would have taken thousands of soldiers to clear those caves." #Hannity pic.twitter.com/zYbir3ZTeC

— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 14, 2017

I think President Trump has answered that question.