Posted on 05/25/2024 2:39:08 PM PDT by Libloather
The temporary piers established at President Biden’s order have run way over budget and caused several issues since USAID commenced deliveries, leading some lawmakers to question the value of the operation.
"At the end of the day, it's unnecessarily putting our people in harm's way. It's costing a lot. It's pulling assets that should be used elsewhere, and I just don't think it's going to accomplish anything near what he's promised," Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital in an interview.
President Biden, during his State of the Union speech in March, pledged to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the Gaza Strip to increase the delivery of humanitarian aid to the territory as millions remain displaced while Israel continues to hunt Hamas.
The Pentagon announced the completion of the piers – one that would remain several miles offshore while the other acted as a causeway onto the Gazan shore – were completed around May 9 but faced difficulty during deployment over the following week.
Waltz said the cost for the project totaled over $300 million, with some reports citing a figure as high as $320 million – which would be double what initial estimates indicated, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., told Reuters, calling the operation a "dangerous effort with marginal benefit."
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Almost - biblical.
Ridiculous that’s it’s being done at all.
Deportation dock.
This is obama’s way of re-supplying the muslims and, at the same time, injuring Americans.
Happened earlier today:
The pier was damaged and ran aground miles from Gaza in the Port of Ashdod. Two US ships also ran aground.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-ships-operating-gaza-humanitarian-175730069.html
The only thing I’d give to the losers in Gaza is a boot to the head.
Food items could have been put in garbage bags, the bags tied shut and then tossed in the water.
The bags and the food would float and Gazans would swim or boat out to get them.
And why is he doing this when Hamas is HOLDING 5 AMERICANS PRISONER? We should not be having discussions let alone be providing aid. Make them first give up the American prisoners THEN start discussions. But certainly do not give them aid!
At the time it seemed like a good way to win support for stupid joe from the hamassholes in congress and college but as usual with anything proposed by stupid joe it has turned into a multi-million dollar clusterfornication.
Have everyone line up and receive rations from an IDF Sergeant Major with a tough-looking scowl and tree-trunk arms. He’ll be flanked by armed guards who mean business. No cutting in line. No looting. Anyone starts violence, they end it.
None of these UN candy-a@@es.
Absolutely. I’m sick of taking care of people who hate us especially so easily.
I’m sick of the US sticking its nose in and f@#$ing things up while posing for a photo op. Then someone gets killed that shouldn’t have, probably an American, the UN steps in and f@#$s things up worse. These are our cousins. We know them. Let us handle it.
Yep. It’s frustrating to no end. We aren’t even liked or appreciated either.
The stupidest idea of the entire Biden administration. And dangerous for USA too as the Fakestinian’s have attacked it at least three times already
It was a military exercise.
The Navy has a large variety of landing craft designed to move supplies from ships to beaches for amphibious operations.
But using what we already have wouldn’t put money into the pockets of connected contractors.
Good catch. They have managed to get a few truck to Hamas.
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