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On 3/8/24 1:55 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <usevpt$1m3o8$3@dont-email.me>,
>   Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> 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?



Sure, and in contrast how's it coming along with your guy getting Mexico 
to pay for his border wall that he never completed?  Isn't the "migrant 
crisis" on him for exactly this reason?



>> 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...