Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 16:07:01 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Biden To Deploy U.S. Military To Gaza To Help The Palestinians: Report Content-Language: en-US Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: From: moviePig In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 100 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 20:07:02 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 5594 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17bb80004f59a21f$3$856620$cd54664@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 5969 On 3/10/2024 3:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article , FPP > wrote: > >> On 3/8/24 10:08 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> In article , FPP >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 3/8/24 2:55 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>> In article , >>>>> Ubiquitous wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> President Joe Biden will reportedly announce during his televised State >>>>>> of >>>>>> the Union speech on Thursday that he is deploying the U.S. military to >>>>>> Gaza to help build infrastructure for the Palestinians. >>>>> >>>>> He wants to build a pier/port for Gaza in the Mediterranean. But swears >>>>> this won't require any U.S. military involvement in the Israel/Gaza war. >>>>> >>>>> How exactly will this work, Joe? We're going to have several dozens >>>>> ships and other machinery right there on the shore building the pier and >>>>> presumably several Navy ships there to protect them, so what happens >>>>> when Hamas inevitably starts lobbing missiles at all of them? >>>>> >>>>> When you're forced to return fire and break your promise that this >>>>> pier-building wouldn't result in us involved in the war, are you going >>>>> to then pretend this wasn't a foreseeable development? >>>>> >>>>>> Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman called the >>>>>> announcement >>>>>> "a cheap political trick". >>>>> >>>>> It's a political trick, all right, but there won't be anything cheap >>>>> about it, either in materiel or lives. >>>>> >>>>>> "Remember that billions of dollars of aid has come into Gaza over the >>>>>> past >>>>>> 15 years and almost all of it was used to build terror tunnels and >>>>>> rocket >>>>>> launchers. How will that be prevented this time? Won't a port just >>>>>> accelerate and exacerbate this risk?" he posted on X. "And even with a >>>>>> port, the humanitarian aid has to be loaded onto trucks to get to their >>>>>> destination-- yes, the same trucks that Hamas is commandeering and >>>>>> preventing from going to the right people!" >>>>> >>>>> Exactly. We're going to spend billions building this port for Gaza (a >>>>> city that essentially doesn't even exist anymore, FYI) and when it's >>>>> finally open, any aid that's offloaded there will just be hijacked by >>>>> Hamas after it leaves the port. >>>>> >>>>> Which will then lead Biden to say, "Well, I know I promised no American >>>>> boots on the ground but we didn't foresee the problems with the aid >>>>> after it leaves the port, so now we need to send in tanks, APCs, and >>>>> troops to protect the aid until it gets to the people." And whammo, just >>>>> like that we're in a shooting war in Gaza. >>>>> >>>>> If only Biden put this much effort into securing the southern border >>>>> here in America... >>> >>>> YOU guys crafted the bill, then YOU guys shot your own bill down and now >>>> want to pretend Biden is responsible for it. >>> >>> Biden is responsible for the entire border mess for the last three years >>> since he took office. It wasn't Republicans who signed 94 EOs ordering >>> everything from cutting holes in barriers so that illegal could have >>> easier entry into the country, to ordering the Border Patrol to refrain >>> from stopping illegals entering the country. >>> >>> Pretending three years later that he has nothing to do with the raging >>> chaos that resulted from his EOs, and it's all the fault of Republicans >>> whose RINO members crafted a bill that makes the problem worse, is >>> idiotic. But it's a brilliant trick if you can find someone stupid >>> enough to fall for it. >>> >>>> People aren't as stupid as you want them to be. >>> >>> No kidding. That's why we see right through this 'bipartisan border >>> bill'. >>> >>>> Pretend all you like, we had a solution to the border problem. >>> >>> Allowing up to 8500 illegals per day to continue to flow unvetted into >>> the country isn't a solution to the border problem under any definition >>> of 'solution' in the English-speaking world, other than, I suppose, it >>> would be legalized under this bill so I guess you could claim they can't >>> be illegals if their entry was legalized and that would give a victory >>> in the language war. >>> >> Again, Republicans put together a fix for the border. > > Again, continuing to allow thousands of illegals unrestricted access to > the nation is not a 'fix'. It's just leaving everything broken and > pretending you fixed it. You *DO* understand that, even if the bill had hermetically sealed the border and deported all current non-legals, it would *STILL* have been shot down like an escaping doe. Not sure you should be celebrating...