Is that what it looks like? Well, no wonder only 7.7 million pounds of material have moved across it since May 17th (that’s only 233 thousand pounds a day. Trump can carry more than that in his arms. He knows more about carrying things than anybody) . And now I read that the temporary pier will not be permanent. Rough seas and security concerns have also been a problem. It was stupid to build it there. If Bien had any brains, he would have built it in a better place, like Lake Erie.
I read that it had been made functional again – at least temporarily- and according to U.S. Central Command something like 650 metric tones of aid – whatever that may be – had been delivered to Gaza as of June 20.
It seems like it’s generally been a boondoggle, but if you look at it as a military field test, it’s probably been quite informative. This is a system that was developed to be deployed in operations in a potential Indo-Pacific conflict and seems it hadn’t been used in a real-life situation. ht tps : /news / the- armys- floating- pier- in-gaza-is-a-preview-of-china-tactics
I guess Joe just doesn’t design, manufacture, assemble and install floating piers as he did when he was younger. Or, some pundits really need to reach for anything negative when the thing did work for a while, in spite of nature’s rejection.
NY Times, Reuters, Washington Times and others have reported that the floating pier is a boondoggle. The UN is reluctant to use it because of so called safety concerns BS, they’re really playing politics because they don’t like Israel’s actions in Rafah. Also the pier is a relatively fragile structure. The Biden administration has been accused of a futile social hand gesture in building it. The Pentagon is considering dismantling it in July and certainly before the bad weather season arrives in September.
Trump’s foreign policy is to let Putin do whatever he wants and surrender to the Afghan terrorist on American soil just weeks before leaving office with no provision for securing trillions in weapons and dumping his steaming mess democrats’ laps no matter the harm to all of America.
BeniHanna6 Premium Member 12 days ago
Totally interesting that we aren’t hearing anything about this boondoggle anymore.
martens 12 days ago
Beckom misses the boat again. Humanistic concerns are not in his moral calculus.
steveandeileen 12 days ago
That policy began in Nam.
rmike7842 12 days ago
Is that what it looks like? Well, no wonder only 7.7 million pounds of material have moved across it since May 17th (that’s only 233 thousand pounds a day. Trump can carry more than that in his arms. He knows more about carrying things than anybody) . And now I read that the temporary pier will not be permanent. Rough seas and security concerns have also been a problem. It was stupid to build it there. If Bien had any brains, he would have built it in a better place, like Lake Erie.
Radish the wordsmith 12 days ago
The pier is in use and is working, this is outdated right wing propaganda.
The United States military has announced it has reinstalled a temporary aid pier in Gaza that had been damaged in bad weather
Right wingers have nothing except hatred.
patriots_aren't_partisan 12 days ago
I read that it had been made functional again – at least temporarily- and according to U.S. Central Command something like 650 metric tones of aid – whatever that may be – had been delivered to Gaza as of June 20.
It seems like it’s generally been a boondoggle, but if you look at it as a military field test, it’s probably been quite informative. This is a system that was developed to be deployed in operations in a potential Indo-Pacific conflict and seems it hadn’t been used in a real-life situation. ht tps : /news / the- armys- floating- pier- in-gaza-is-a-preview-of-china-tactics
Benaiah67 12 days ago
Biden had never gotten one foreign policy decision right.
ncorgbl 12 days ago
I guess Joe just doesn’t design, manufacture, assemble and install floating piers as he did when he was younger. Or, some pundits really need to reach for anything negative when the thing did work for a while, in spite of nature’s rejection.
Kracklin Rosie - “Tolo Dan Nan Galad” Premium Member 12 days ago
NY Times, Reuters, Washington Times and others have reported that the floating pier is a boondoggle. The UN is reluctant to use it because of so called safety concerns BS, they’re really playing politics because they don’t like Israel’s actions in Rafah. Also the pier is a relatively fragile structure. The Biden administration has been accused of a futile social hand gesture in building it. The Pentagon is considering dismantling it in July and certainly before the bad weather season arrives in September.
lawguy05 12 days ago
Biden doesn’t even know it was built, much less that it sank. The world is laughing at the U.S.
Havel 12 days ago
The critics would have been all over FDR for the Mulberry Harbor collapse shortly after D-Day.
Radish the wordsmith 12 days ago
Right wingers have zero empathy for starving Palestinians.
Durak Premium Member 12 days ago
Beckom’s disrespect for the accomplishments of the US military is beneath contempt.
Jack7528 11 days ago
Sounds so true!
Ontman 11 days ago
Beckom in one image.:
think it through 10 days ago
Trump’s foreign policy is to let Putin do whatever he wants and surrender to the Afghan terrorist on American soil just weeks before leaving office with no provision for securing trillions in weapons and dumping his steaming mess democrats’ laps no matter the harm to all of America.
ShadowMaster 10 days ago
It’s more of a statement of how badly the US of A chooses who they contract with to build these things…
zerorest 9 days ago
Like you care.
billsplut 9 days ago
$1.6 TRILLION Trump tax cut to himself and others who never deserved it. Wonder why you don’t care about THAT money?