Posted on 08/25/2024 7:31:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber
On July 14th, in The pier to nowhere is going away, I wrote:
When what’s left of the pier is finally removed and probably, scrapped, we can be certain, just as with the withdrawal debacle in Afghanistan, the MMPA will declare it a brilliant success and an example of the military acumen and inspired leadership of Joe Biden. Interestingly, at his recent NATO conference, Biden sort of allowed the pier wasn't as successful as it could have been. And like that disaster, we’ll never know the true financial and human cost.
The horror of it is Israel has ports that could have been used far more safely to offload supplies, but then the MMPA couldn’t brag about their stunningly successful relief efforts. As always, our troops suffer to enable feckless political stunts, but at least Joe got his photo ops.
Since then, the media, and the Harris/Biden Administration--Joe Biden, vanishing POTUS—have ignored the unfolding debacle. The pier, badly damaged and sort of repaired, supposedly has been dismantled, and multiple US Army(?) ships are in little better shape. Earlier reports indicated those ships had substantial difficulty, so poor was their mechanical condition, even getting to the Middle East. Now it appears they’re no longer able to return to America under their own power.
Roughly seven months after setting sail for the US military’s troubled temporary pier mission off the Gaza coast, three US Army boats are expected to have to be hauled back to the US by contracted civilian vessels behind schedule, raising more concern about the state of the Army watercraft at the center of a major effort to bring humanitarian aid into war-torn Gaza.
“[C]oordination is underway for the [landing craft utility ships] to be transported back on contracted Float-On/Float-Off vessels with an expected ETA of late-October,”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Great job Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA)!
Not their pocket and, therefore, not their concern.
It’s not incompetence it’s treachery.
And most of the sheeple are too brain dead to notice let alone complain. Complain, that is all we do if anything as we whimper into the night.
The purpose of the “pier” was not to expedite delivery of aid, it was to create the appearance that the Biden admnistration for doing something humanitarian for the Palestinians, at that moment.
I assume the US military told the politicians this pier would not work due to this lust of technical reasons, right before they were ordered to shut up, make it work anyway, and if it doesn’t it’s your fault.
Once once again, in America’s wasted, woke, bloated military bureacracy - NO ONE is blamed or punished or demoted.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I hope this helps me in the polls
Pardon the numerous typos in my post. “a list”, not “this lust”...
Close to $1 Billion. But what is a billion anymore? Pocket change and to pay off the dole?
MMPA?
Marine Mammal Protection Act?
Michigan Milk Producers Association?
Master Military Pay Account?
No idea.
If Trump had done something this stupid, the corrupt press would still be talking about it. But since the press plays butt boy for democrats there’s crickets... how charming.
Biblically something about aiding and abetting Israel’s enemies comes to mind.
EFH expensive fish habitat
Flat bottom boats are not a good choice for cross atlantic sailing.
The very first time I heard/saw about this debacle I knew it would not end well.
Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA)
A sternly worded letter isn’t enough here. A bunch of folks need to be charged & held accountable for this.
I liked George Bush’s way of feeding the neanderthals just before starting the war in Afghanistan. For political optics, he dropped a bunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches from cargo planes to feed the populus. Of course, they didn’t know what they were and probably fed the goats with them. Much cheaper optics than building piers to feed terrorists
“Charged and held accountable”
Accounting is what I’d really like to see. A lot of money was spent. Who got it? Opportunity for a lot of graft. Profits that likely found their way into Democrat pockets if not campaigns.
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