Would it be cheaper to have your military build a port from nothing on the other side of the world or to not give the people creating the conditions that require the port $4 Billion dollars a year? Where is the fiscal responsibility I've heard is so important?
Nope, that's why it takes 2 months.
Since 9/11 most Americans support the genocide of Moslems: Iraqi, Afghani, Palestinian, Syrian, all of them but Saudis. This is just a propaganda gesture to convince the anti-Zionists Dems that something is being done while actually doing very little or nothing.
