The botched humanitarian aid operation caps Biden’s Middle East meltdown.
“The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley [often go astray],” as poet Bobby Burns wrote. Nothing says “Gang aft agley” like anything the Biden administration touches. For example, the much-touted Joint Logistics Over the Shore (JLOTS) pier-and-dock system Biden had the US Navy and US Army Corps of Engineers install on a wave-rocked beach in Gaza failed.
Failure of the Gaza Pier Just One Problem
The JLOTS system has been deployed in the past and worked well. But not this time. It was already a disaster when the initial fleet of trucks filled with desperately needed humanitarian aid ended up being mobbed and the food stolen. And now a portion of the pier system has broken away. A motorized tug that supported the floating pier severed its…
