You're Buying Kenya Some Navy SEAL Boats!
Bend over, US taxpayer! Yet again.
TradeAidMonitor, which reported on the boats being given to Kenya (according, they say, to a presolicitation notice that NAVSEC uploaded to a federal contracting database on May 21), blogs:
A History Channel report referred to the boat as "the Lamborghini of special warfare craft."
TeaPartyEconomist blogs:
The government of Kenya is going to receive a gift from the Obama Administration: five top-of-the-line Navy Seal boats.Why? Nobody seems to know.
With a $1.3 trillion deficit every year, little things like this barely get noticed. They add up.
The winner is the contractor: United States Marine Incorporated (USMI) of Gulfport, Miss.
These boats are described by the Navy's "Fact File" as "High-speed, high-buoyancy, extreme-weather craft with the primary mission of SEAL insertion/extraction."
What does Kenya plan to do with these boats? And why should American taxpayers pay for them?
via @mpetrie
Kenya is right next to Somalia, so they are probably going to be deployed as some sort of anti-piracy measure...
Eric at June 24, 2012 8:07 AM
Spending.
Feebie at June 24, 2012 8:48 AM
At least Kenya has some coastline. I could see Obama trying to giving them to Rwanda or Burundi.
Jim P. at June 24, 2012 9:02 AM
The U.S. has been coordinating with Kenyan forces to help them fight Al Shabaab in Somalia for quite a while now. They're a hardline Islamist group, and the last thing we need is them taking over Somalia and setting up training camps.
Say what you will about Obama but his record regarding national security is outstanding. I the cost of these boats pales in comparison to even 1 cruise missile. How many cruise missiles did Bush launch in the first 14 days of the Iraq war? I can assure you it was a shitload, I was there.
Mike Hunter at June 24, 2012 9:40 AM
Say what you will about Obama but his record regarding national security is outstanding.
I have to disagree. This administration is as leaky as a sieve. We didn't need to know the night OBL died that he died. Instead, we get an announcement, allowing his surviving lieutenants to go to new hidey holes instead of allowing the military/CIA to hunt them down and kill them.
Now they're leaking out details on Stuxnet and Flame? awesome, let's just admit to conducting cyberwar against a nation-state. Think that could be considered a causus belli?
I R A Darth Aggie at June 24, 2012 11:56 AM
We didn't need to know the night OBL died that he died.
Right? And wtf was with the long walk down the hall way? You suppose they hired someone to teach him how to walk 'proprely'?
lujlp at June 24, 2012 12:30 PM
It's all for naught. The Somali pirates will end up "stealing" them anyway.
Flynne at June 26, 2012 7:51 AM
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