The Biden Bad Idea Fairy continues to work overtime.
Why is the concept of a Gaza Pier not a viable option? This needs an acronym. How about GMAFB for Gaza’s Moronic Army Floating Base?
(Seriously, there are better way to do this, the problem is the DoD divested most of the equipment and the Navy hates asking industry for help)
First, Gaza is a flat strip of coast with no protected harbors or coves. Thus means that any ‘pier’ would be completely open to the elements and seas.
Second, there are two ports just a few miles away. Ashdod in Israel is a large port and could handle the cargo, but it would require transport and delivery through Israeli territory. Al Arish in Egypt is smaller but protected by a breakwater and only a few miles from Gaza and avoids having to traverse Israeli territory. If the US wants to deliver aid over the beach, this would be akin to a Joint Logistics Over the Shore operations (JLOTS). This lighterage system is on prepositioning ships in the Indian and Pacific oceans or would need to be transported from the US. Lighterage would have to take the cargo from ships at anchor, meaning the ships would need to be self-sustaining (mount the cranes).
Another option would be to activate one of the ESDs to serve as a floating pier, but you would need lighterage of LCACs to shuttle cargo.We can do the Vietnam War model and build piers, which were barges with Jack-up legs, connected to shore by barges.
There were built in Cam Rahn and Da Nang, but these were protected harbors and the US had done this a few years earlier in the Arctic.Of course, the best group out there right now building piers and ports in China, as recently demonstrated with a new pier in Djibouti and base in Cambodia.The delivery of food aid and relief to Gaza is crucial.
However, it would have been better to undertake this effort in conjunction with Op Prosperity Guardian against the #Houthi, vice months later.
It could have undercut the Houthi effort while rounding out the US operation.
I don’t know what better sums up the modern American progressive establishment than this: Apologizing to the murderer, for calling him an illegal immigrant rather than “undocumented” with no thought of apologizing to the girl who was murdered for getting her actual name wrong.
Stupid–The fact they’re illegal immigrants means they literally could not have been here to build this country.
Progressive Democrats who try to tell you that it’s important to support Biden even though he’s committing a genocide because he might do some nice things for Americans domestically are actually giving you a useful insight into exactly what’s so evil about western liberalism.