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The general shittiness and halfassedness of the floating humanitarian aid pier the US military is planning for Gaza just became a little shittier. Context first: the role of TCNs in American military operations in the Middle East.
During the Iraq War, I spent a year in northern Kuwait as an operations sergeant in an infantry battalion TOC — the tactical operations center. ...
Giant truck convoys would form to our south, at Camp Arifjan, and roll through the crossing near Navistar to get into Iraq. The convoys were protected by four gun trucks, but they were very long convoys that went on for many miles, so the soldiers providing security would lose sight of many of the trucks on the road.
The drivers in those convoys were TCNs — third-country nationals. Bangladeshis, Nepalese, Indians. Since they were civilian contractors, they weren’t allowed to be armed. And then the supply trucks got separated from the gun trucks, in the vicinity of the dirt-poor Iraqi border town of Safwan, and the soldiers in the gun trucks would find the dead TCN drivers on the side of the road. Our QRF at Navistar would go up and look for the missing trucks, and occasionally find the emptied trailers. Weirdly, the well-fed and remarkably affluent Iraqi National Police were often already on the scene, iykwimaityd.
The complexity of the problem of having our supply drivers murdered by our very good friends in the Iraqi security forces resulted in the command consensus that look, we’re just gonna lose the occasional TCN, nothing we can do about it. And indeed, we did go on losing some of those drivers from time to time. I mean, shit happens, right?
So. The original plan for the floating aid pier off the Gaza coast was that American troops would do the work on the water, while British troops would drive the trucks onto shore. Then Hamas dropped some mortar rounds on the site of the future onshore marshalling yard as UN officials toured it, and suddenly there’s a new plan, developed during a sudden operational pause that’s definitely because of the weather.
The one thing I don't get is why Hamas is dropping mortar rounds on the Americans and British who are supplying them with food.
The one thing I don't get is why Hamas is dropping mortar rounds on the Americans and British who are supplying them with food.
An Outstanding Analysis By Glenn Greenwald Quantifying Stunning Elite Media Reversals Against Israel, Including The Economist, Financial Times, and Piers Morgan: Same Pattern As Iraq, And Vietnam
What Made Them Suddenly Change Course? Where, Weeks Ago, Even Days Ago, They Clamored To Defend Israel, They Now Clamor To Cleanse Their Names
UPenn has a Law Prof named Amy Wax who has been persona non-grata with the Wokies for lamenting the loss of "Bourgeois Culture" (inc. American Work Ethic) and worse, pointing out the lack of Black Achievement in College. She's still "under investigation" for her speech.
Semi-related, this ACLU attorney who defended the Trannie Whistleblower has called for a book critical of Transbaloney banned: