The clip below begins with an update about how the pier building is proceeding outside of Gaza. It is supposed to be a landing spot for humanitarian aid. Israelis are supposed to control one facet, the US another, and the Gazans (Hamas) the other.
The problem is that Hamas will regard anyone besides themselves as a target. They have made that declaration.
What is the security provided? There are some Israeli and US ships.
This pier effort is another idiotic effort by the US administration.
It’s entirely weather-dependent. It’s totally open. There is no place for these vessels to shelter. You’re talking about a tremendous expense.
In the Red Sea, the US and the Brits had set up a wall between cargo ships and the Houthis. Now that the US has mostly been deployed to the Mediterranean, and there are very few escorts left.
Iran has seized four vessels at this time while we’re building a pier for Hamas. Other hot spots and Somali piracy cannot be addressed. We just don’t have the ships.
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Obviously Hamas is the most important government in the world that needs to be courted, far more important that protecting world shipping.
Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison understood how to deal with dangerous pirates like the Muslim Houthis and others in that area. They attacked the Barbary Pirates and the attacks under Madison led to their demise.
The idiots of the current administration, without even a tiny bit of common sense or a modicum of critical thinking (thatks, Xi Van Fleet) try to build seaport to give aid to people who hate us and they even attack the “port”.
Imagine: Taking resources from protecting shipping, to protect the ‘floating port’ from the people who would benefit from it.
We need real leadership again with a return to constitutional governing.
None of this insanity would be happening under Trump’s watch.