US Army Finally has ‘Boots on the Ground’ in Gaza in the Most Humiliating Way Possible

The US floating pier allegedly used to provide relief supplies to Gaza civilians has partially washed away, and two boats used to service it have been washed ashore. According to reports, the Army was temporarily relocating the floating pier to the Israeli port of Ashdod because of heavy wave action. During the move, a segment of the pier came free, and the boats sent to retrieve it went aground.

The Israeli Navy is leading the recovery operation.

Nothing about this mission has been thought through. An absence of heavy-lift ships on the East Coast meant that small Army ships spent over a month in a trans-Atlantic crossing, roughly going the same speed as Christopher Columbus’s fleet. We now know that none of the aid pushed over the pier has reached Gaza civilians. To top it off, our humanitarian mission has come under attack from the people we are trying to help. 

Now, the final promise has been broken, that of no “boots on the ground” in Gaza — even if the boots belonged to US military personnel walking away from a shipwreck.