I’m pretty sure that the military understands in general that the bunker busters don’t really work all that well.

I think the more relevant factors in this calculation are (1) B2 is a technology from the 1980s, (2) B2 still looks fricken cool, (3) Tomahawk was also a big deal in the 1980s, (4) Israel already did all of the work suppressing air defenses, and finally (5) the big parade the week before kinda sucked.

I suggest you read the recent unsigned per curiam order in D.V.D.. The law of the land; it is a changin’.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia does not really have a “legal” status, as he has an active final deportation order, with withholding of removal to El Salvador only.

He can be legally deported to a third country (not El Salvador) that will take him. Pursuant to the supreme court’s decision yesterday, he can apparently be deported to these third countries with no advance notice whatsoever.

Of course, deportation would make it hard to appear in Tennessee for his felony case. But that hasn’t stopped ICE before. People have been arrested for failure to appear in criminal cases, because they entered ICE detention.

People have reported being sold into slavery after being deported to Libya. Mauritania criminalized chattel slavery in 2007, but the law is not well enforced.