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You say floating dock, I say sitting duck: How many servicemen and servicewomen are going to die as a result of this floating dock into Gaza for the purpose of delivering humanitarian aid?
American Thinker ^ | 03/15/2024 | Peter McArdle

Posted on 03/15/2024 7:16:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

My expertise in life is rather limited.

In fact, the only things I’m really well versed in are dental care, raising a family, and pouring a beer just so into a frozen mug resulting in a perfect, frothy one-inch head.

That being said, you’ve got to be out of your freakin’ mind to consider building a floating dock into Gaza for the purpose of delivering humanitarian aid.

Of course, our practically petrified puppet in the White House is out of his freakin’ mind as his senile dementia proceeds apace.

But my point is, if you build it -- the floating dock, not a practically petrified puppet -- a certain number of Americans are going to die.

And they’ll die in the service of a population that hates America and Israel in equal measure, and whose Hamas brethren would like nothing better than to do to U.S. soldiers what they just did to more than a thousand innocent Jews.

Even if we created a temporary military base, complete with an airfield, on the land side of the dock, some Americans would still die (see Kabul Airport, bombing and U.S. Cole, bombing). I mean, they don’t call Hamas 'terrorists' for nothing.

But as that well-meaning, elderly man with a bad memory yelled out during his State of the Union harangue, there will be no American boots on the ground!

The poor souls tapped to serve this mission will be the very definition of sitting ducks. And their Navy and Air Force protectors will be, as Sleepy Joe’s puppet master might say, leading from behind. They will get involved only after missiles, RPGs, drones, and God knows what else, rain down death and destruction upon our servicemen and servicewomen.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; pier; terrorism
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1 posted on 03/15/2024 7:16:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Why is this so obvious to everyone except Biden? Perhaps they want Americans dragged into this war. It has to be intentional because it just can’t be stupidity.


2 posted on 03/15/2024 7:19:37 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: SeekAndFind

We have fishing piers in Florida.

The two nearest ones to me are made from large rocks.

Gaza has a lot of rubble. Let Gazans make good use of it.


3 posted on 03/15/2024 7:21:46 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: SeekAndFind

It isn’t being built for humanitarian aid, it is being built so WE can give the terrorists WEAPONS


4 posted on 03/15/2024 7:21:52 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s the plan, mission creep to draw us in to fight Hezbollah. By the way, according to The Jerusalem Post, this entire ridiculous idea was Netanyahu’s.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4224193/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4224201/posts


5 posted on 03/15/2024 7:22:00 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: SeekAndFind

Common sense.


6 posted on 03/15/2024 7:22:58 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: SeekAndFind

“But my point is, if you build it — the floating dock, not a practically petrified puppet — a certain number of Americans are going to die.“

That is the plan. Then we get to go to war in the Middle East. Think how much money Raytheon and DARPA will make.


7 posted on 03/15/2024 7:26:18 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: SeekAndFind

That dock will be situated in an area firmly controlled by the IDF. Hamas and others will not view it as a conduit for humanitarian aid but as a military facility to aid in resupply, occupation and control of the population.


8 posted on 03/15/2024 7:26:22 AM PDT by allendale
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To: SeekAndFind

The correct question is, “Will the mere presence of Americans prevent the dock from being destroyed?”


9 posted on 03/15/2024 7:28:11 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: eyeamok
It isn’t being built for humanitarian aid, it is being built so WE can give the terrorists WEAPONS

You got it!! Biden is an evil SOB, on the wrong side of EVERYTHING!

10 posted on 03/15/2024 7:28:21 AM PDT by RatRipper
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To: SeekAndFind

The poor souls tapped to serve this mission will be the very definition of sitting ducks. And their Navy and Air Force protectors will be, as Sleepy Joe’s puppet master might say, leading from behind. They will get involved only after missiles, RPGs, drones, and God knows what else, rain down death and destruction upon our servicemen and servicewomen.

If Air Force fighters aren’t flying CAP throughout the entire project, our military leadership is, at a minimum, committing malpractice and dereliction under the UCMJ.

Colonel, USAF JAGC (Ret)


11 posted on 03/15/2024 7:28:22 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

I hope that Israel uses captured Hamas mortars to attack the pier when there are no Americans on it.


12 posted on 03/15/2024 7:29:09 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: hardspunned

I really don’t find a lot of truth at the JP. Never have.


13 posted on 03/15/2024 7:38:10 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: SeekAndFind

Building infrastructure in a hot war zone is always, inherently highly risky. Doing it when it’s obvious it would only serve to resupply the terrorists is inexcusable aid and comfort to evil forces that are violently anti- American and anti- Israel. The Nazis/ communists/ islamophiles embedded in the USA Snake Department are a grave danger to America as they’re undermining the country, our defense capabilities, and our Allies while defending, financing, and supplying hostile forces


14 posted on 03/15/2024 7:41:29 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: jagusafr

Reminds me of Vietnam, where tank commanders were not able to return fire on the VC because they were hiding in french rubber trees. So, towards the end, we just loosed a million bucks of shells just for the sport of it.


15 posted on 03/15/2024 7:42:08 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: jagusafr

Last thing we need is another Beirut Bombing. Afghanistan type withdrawal. Somalia. List goes on and on.


16 posted on 03/15/2024 7:44:03 AM PDT by donozark (Even when Paul Pelosi isn't drinking, he's getting hammered.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The US Military is slowly being dragged, like all other nations, into the “Controversy of Zion”…

Isaiah 34:Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. 2 For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. [..] 8 For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
17 posted on 03/15/2024 7:44:18 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: jagusafr

COMSCLANT will likely set up the port.

It specializes in all of those bells and whitles, as do (or did) its reserve detachments (102 and 104).

Those reservists are probably already mobilizing.


18 posted on 03/15/2024 7:45:58 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: SeekAndFind

Someone needs to carefully look at the make up of the military being assigned to that dock.

If it’s trannies, etc, then they’ll be safe.

If it’s well known loyal to the country patriots, they WILL be a target. It’s a way to clear the ranks of the unwanted patriots.


19 posted on 03/15/2024 7:46:16 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: logi_cal869

I have some friends who were in Lebanon in ‘83 who have an opinion on how this stuff works out.

I think it’s stupid.

They have to hand stuff directly to the people because most Arab countries are so corrupt it would be stolen before it hit the ground.


20 posted on 03/15/2024 7:46:57 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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