Risa:
i've been trying very hard to remind people that given a city whose emergency services were either financially stripmined in order to fund Iraq or else were actually in Iraq, the mayor and the governor did the best they possibly could.
Why is it all up to the mayor and governor? Why are the feds not automatically involved? I'm asking as a Canadian—in Canada the federal government is always part of dealing with emergencies. This is not like the Asian tsunami or an earthquake; they had days warning and knew what could happen. Why didn't the National Guard set up a mega-bussing program? Why did the army not prepare a tent city for evacuees? If they hadn't all been in Iraq would it have made any difference in the response?
Here's a prediction: over the next weeks there will be a strong media focus on looters and armed, lawless criminals roaming the streets of NO. Thereby reducing culpability for the failure to protect citizens by proving that the only people who stayed in NO are such lowlifes that they didn't deserve to be evacuated in the first place.
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