FROM J C

Couldn’t craft a better metaphor for Biden’s foreign policy than this Wall Street Journal story yesterday:

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The hastily built “temporary dock” was fabulously expensive, took three times as long as forecast to build, and is now breaking apart at the first sign of rough weather. With an eye-watering $320 million price tag, one wonders how much a permanent dock or even an entire marina would have cost.

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Compare the cost of Biden’s $320 million Gaza Dock to the latest aid package rushed to Ukraine this week to rescue the war effort. Voice of America ran the story Friday headlined, “US announces $275M in new military aid for Ukraine.”

In other words, one crappy dock cost more than the entire latest Ukraine war package.

The no-expense-spared floating pier was built by military engineers overseeing more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers and sailors. This week, part of the pier’s support system “broke off” after “four boats stabilizing the $320 million structure detached” in a mildly rough sea.

“Detached” is a neat euphemism, like saying a Boeing’s emergency door made an “unscheduled departure” from the aircraft during takeoff.

At least two stabilizing boats (tugs?) later washed up on the beach. What will wash up next?

Even worse, the supposed beneficiaries don’t even want the damned thing. For some reason, Palestinians — for whom Biden swears the pier was built — don’t believe it’s really for humanitarian aid. They rightly point out how unimaginably cheaper and safer it is to simply drive aid into Palestine in trucks. They suspect the US’s high-tech floating pier was really built to deliver explosive aid — bombs — instead.

The military’s hyper-costly, crumbling “temporary pier” is just another harebrained scheme, hastily conceived and poorly executed, that nobody wanted and that we can’t afford. And that’s Biden’s foreign policy in a nutshell.