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We are talking about a president whose entire career has been marked with foreign policy failure after foreign policy failure. His record is so awful that Robert Gates, who served under Barack Obama, once described Biden as being "wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." Ten years have passed since that statement, and nothing has changed except the mark is up to 50 years now.
Joe Biden is the Jim Carmer of politics. If he says something, you can take it to the bank that the opposite position is the correct one. That's true even when he manages to appear to be on the right side of an issue, ...//
Xknight65
6 hours ago
This is not the same country that built the Mulberry, towed it across the Channel on June 6 1944, emplaced it while under fire and maintained it as an active port until the worst Channel storm of the century damaged it 20 days later, by which time it was no longer needed. No we're not the same country just as Boeing is not the same manufacturer that produced the B17
writeofcenter Xknight65
6 hours ago edited
All correct except….. it was still needed because the Cherbourg harbor was destroyed by the Germans and Antwerp hadn’t been liberated yet. So the Americans used the British Mulberry in the interim (for months).
The British Mulberry was better protected from the elements due to geography.
The Gaza Pier has no protection. We should have known better.
I expect the excuse to be used will be climate change..