A representative of the U.S. Navy told a congressional panel Tuesday that America is using up munitions at breakneck speed for Israeli defense.
Admiral James Kilby, acting chief of Naval Operations, was testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee during a hearing on the Navy’s budget.
He was asked by Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii about the Navy’s stockpile of available munitions for other potential threats, Fox News reported.
“The latest round of conflict in the Middle East utilized large amounts of munitions to defend Israel from Iranian strikes,” Schatz said. “Does the Navy currently have all the SM-3s it needs for global threats?”
“We do, sir,” Kilby replied, “but we are, to your point, using them at an alarming rate. As you know, those are missiles procured by the Missile Defense Agency and then delivered to the Navy for our use. And we are using them quite effectively in the defense of Israel.”
Secretary of the Navy John Phelan said naval leadership is “looking at a number of different avenues, including other parties and different ways of making some of these munitions,” calling it a “huge priority” of President Trump.
Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky also weighed in on the matter.
“We need more munitions, air defense interceptors, long-range fires, he said. “Recent conflict tells us we need a lot more of them.”
Following Trump’s daring bunker-buster bombing mission against Iran, it’s time for the United States to take a deep breath and begin stepping back.
Do you want to see the U.S. scale back its operations in the Middle East?
Israel will always be our ally. They bring stability to an otherwise chaotic region, maintain a special relationship with America, and deserve to live in peace.
Yet after Trump followed through on a plan that wiped out Iran’s nuclear capabilities, it appears as if Israel wants more from the U.S.
The commander in chief likely carried out the bombing raid to force both sides to the table in an effort to forge a lasting peace.
It wasn’t meant to open to door to another potentially endless war where American military equipment, time, and money are spent abroad.
The tension has become so apparent that on Tuesday, Trump unleashed a curse word in frustration at a reporter when asked about the current state of affairs regarding Iran and Israel trading blows again.
“I’m not happy with Iran either, but I’m really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning,” he said. “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing. Do you understand that?”
Trump was so furious with Israel’s original plans for retaliation that he chewed out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, forcing him to significantly scale back the attack.
Trump ran on a number of key issues, but putting America first was at the top of his list.
He can continue to assist with Middle East affairs and monitor future activity, as his administration has already done.
But if the nation is beginning to run dry on munitions, it may be time to redirect our focus to domestic policy issues, before history repeats itself and we become tied up in yet another far-flung land for years to come.
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