It’s hard to avoid the impression that Joe Biden’s plan to deploy the U.S. military to construct a humanitarian pier in Gaza wasn’t that well thought out. The pier proposal‚ which the president revealed during this year’s State of the Union Address‚ conflicts with his desire to limit America’s direct involvement in Israel’s defensive war against Hamas. Soon after the announcement‚ independent reports indicated that the project would take two months to complete and involve 1‚100 U.S. service...