Afghan Taliban's brazen attack eclipses Trump's 'mother of all bombs'

By Josh Smith and Hamid Shalizi
KABUL (Reuters) – Eight days after the U.S. military dropped its largest ever conventional bomb on suspected Islamic State fighters in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban militants breached an army base in the north of the country and killed scores of local soldiers.
To Afghan and other critics of President Donald Trump’s apparent indecision over how to win a seemingly intractable war, Friday’s assault – the worse of its kind since the Taliban we