Posted on 06/26/2024 7:02:01 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
The latest news is that the pier may be terminated ahead of schedule. Erected in mid-May by the U.S. military to deliver seaborne assistance, the pier’s operations repeatedly have been interrupted by rough waters.
A storm broke the pier apart only days after going into service. After millions of dollars of repairs, it was thrown back into action. Days later, forecasts of choppy waters led the military to tow the pier to safe harbor. It’s just returned to service a third time, though it’s hard not to believe that the project’s days are numbered.
Mother Nature may end up being the proximate cause of the pier’s demise, but it hasn’t been the only problem foiling the effort. Security has also been a major problem. In the brief time the facility actually functioned, the relatively small amounts of assistance making it to shore were being widely looted by desperate mobs.
Remarkably, Biden and his team didn’t demand a solution to the security problem before making the pier the centerpiece of a major presidential initiative. Nor did they bother to develop one in the two months that it took the military to get the pier into place. With the eyes of the world watching and U.S. credibility on the line, the administration’s approach to a well-defined set of challenges that could make or break the effort seemed to amount to little more than hoping things would work out.
Alas, they haven’t. Instead, the pier has become a humiliating internet meme and joke — and at a price tag of more than $200 million in U.S. taxpayer funds and months of effort by 1,000 troops.
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I’m sure the beaches of Normandy were plenty rough on June 6, 1944. Our military knew what they were doing. Those bridges didn’t fail.
Obama: “Never underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.”
The US military is the FBI in uniform.
i was gonna say that at least it was a good military exercise ... for F-ing Up ...
Back in the day we would call this whole mission a FUBAR or Charlie Foxtrot or maybe SNAFU, Situation Normal All F’d Up. But that seems to be SOP with everything Joey does.
Many of those requirements are made up by the contractors and then lobbied into law to put more billable bodies on the contract to fulfill the requirements.
Think self-licking ice cream cones.
wonder which of the Biden families shell companies got that contract.
Old Diaper Joe is P I E R less.
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