Biden’s pier to nowhere
By
Washington Examiner
May 23, 2024 1:00 am
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Utopian intentions. Naive assumptions. Petty political point scoring. Inept planning. Disastrous outcomes. Those are the hallmarks of every foreign policy decision President Joe Biden has made since taking office, and they are all on full display with the absurd failure of his pier for the landing of aid to Gaza.
Two months and $320 million after he first announced the project during his State of the Union address, the U.S. Navy delivered the first 16 trucks of aid to Gaza on Saturday, carrying 569 tons of food and other humanitarian items.
Eleven of the trucks were robbed of their entire payloads before they reached their destination. None of the food that made it through to its warehouse destination has since been successfully distributed.
Video of the trucks driving in Gaza shows Palestinians jumping aboard the moving vehicles, ripping aid away, and throwing it to others waiting to catch it. Eventually, the whole convoy was swarmed and forced to stop, and its aid was looted. One Gazan was shot and killed in the chaos.
Asked if any of the aid delivered via Biden’s pier had yet reached its proper destination in Gaza, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder admitted this week, “As of today, I do not believe so.”
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