Posted on 06/03/2024 5:10:58 AM PDT by Twotone
To start the week, a few thoughts on the passing scene:
~So what else is going on? Oh, look...
China's Chang'e-6 mission lander made a successful soft landing on the far side of the moon late Saturday and will soon begin collecting unique lunar samples.
Has the moon signed up for Peking's Belt & Road Initiative yet? Give it another three months.
~Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth:
Officials with the US Central Command first brought up the option of building a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza in late October, the senior administration official told CNN. The risks however were deemed too great at the time, with unpredictable winter weather and heavy fighting in Gaza.
The pier also didn't have a great track record operating in choppy seas.
During a major military exercise in Australia last year, US soldiers had to wait for a "narrow window" of opportunity to deploy the pier because of heavy seas. They had similar problems during a training exercise off the coast of Virginia in 2016.
It's also been more than a decade since the military last used this kind of floating pier, known as a Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore, or JLOTS, in a real operation, when it delivered humanitarian aid to Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake.
"This is something that we haven't done in a really long time," a defense official told CNN.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
What an absolute waste of US taxpayers’ money. The US military is buffoonish and focused on DEI rather than competence. Sad and pathetic.
Wow that was a scathing rebuke of the US Justice system and the US abuse of it’s Constitution.
It was also spot on.
My favorite “undocumented guest host” for Rush.
I like this quote toward the end of the article...
“No country was ever saved by good men because good men will not go to the length that may be necessary.”
So?
It didn't do this pier thingy without directions from above.
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